Youngstown State Penguins (12-13, 5-9 Horizon League) at Oakland Golden Grizzlies (14-11, 10-4 Horizon League)<\/p>\n
Auburn Hills, Michigan; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Oakland hosts Youngstown State after Tuburu Niavalurua scored 22 points in Oakland\u2019s 91-78 loss to the Cleveland State Vikings.<\/p>\n
The Golden Grizzlies have gone 6-2 in home games. Oakland scores 83.3 points and has outscored opponents by 1.8 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Penguins are 5-9 against Horizon League opponents. Youngstown State is second in the Horizon League allowing 72.4 points while holding opponents to 44.7% shooting.<\/p>\n
Oakland\u2019s average of 7.0 made 3-pointers per game this season is just 0.8 more made shots on average than the 6.2 per game Youngstown State gives up. Youngstown State has shot at a 46.7% clip from the field this season, 0.1 percentage points less than the 46.8% shooting opponents of Oakland have averaged.<\/p>\n
The Golden Grizzlies and Penguins square off Thursday for the first time in Horizon League play this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Brody Robinson is averaging 16.9 points and six assists for the Golden Grizzlies. Niavalurua is averaging 14.6 points and 6.7 rebounds while shooting 54.5% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Andrew King is averaging 2.9 points and 3.1 assists for the Penguins. Cris Carroll is averaging 18.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Golden Grizzlies: 7-3, averaging 84.6 points, 33.8 rebounds, 15.8 assists, 7.9 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 47.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 77.5 points per game.<\/p>\n
Penguins: 4-6, averaging 80.1 points, 30.9 rebounds, 14.5 assists, 6.6 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 46.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 75.4 points.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Youngstown State Penguins (12-13, 5-9 Horizon League) at Oakland Golden Grizzlies (14-11, 10-4 Horizon League) Auburn Hills, Michigan;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-174627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-oakland","9":"tag-oakland-headlines","10":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}