Montana Lady Griz (7-19, 4-11 Big Sky) at Sacramento State Hornets (12-16, 6-9 Big Sky)<\/p>\n
Sacramento, California; Thursday, 9:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Montana enters the matchup with Sacramento State after losing six games in a row.<\/p>\n
The Hornets have gone 7-5 in home games. Sacramento State has a 4-9 record against teams over .500.<\/p>\n
The Lady Griz are 4-11 in Big Sky play. Montana ranks eighth in the Big Sky allowing 72.6 points while holding opponents to 44.0% shooting.<\/p>\n
Sacramento State is shooting 40.3% from the field this season, 3.7 percentage points lower than the 44.0% Montana allows to opponents. Montana averages 62.9 points per game, 2.2 more than the 60.7 Sacramento State allows.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the second time in conference play this season. Sacramento State won 64-57 in the last matchup on Jan. 31. Rubi Gray led Sacramento State with 18 points, and Avery Waddington led Montana with 16 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Keanna Salave\u2019a is averaging 6.3 points and 5.8 rebounds for the Hornets. Benthe Versteeg is averaging 14.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Mack Konig is scoring 15.7 points per game and averaging 3.1 rebounds for the Lady Griz. Aby Shubert is averaging 1.7 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Hornets: 3-7, averaging 57.6 points, 30.3 rebounds, 10.2 assists, 8.5 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 37.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 63.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
Lady Griz: 4-6, averaging 64.8 points, 27.9 rebounds, 10.6 assists, 6.1 steals and 3.1 blocks per game while shooting 39.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 71.0 points.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montana Lady Griz (7-19, 4-11 Big Sky) at Sacramento State Hornets (12-16, 6-9 Big Sky) Sacramento, California; Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2454,7,4213,1327,9222,10308,38270,121,123,122,127,26102,8859],"class_list":{"0":"post-193087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-college-sports","12":"tag-data-skrive","13":"tag-montana","14":"tag-mt-state-wire","15":"tag-sacramento","16":"tag-sacramento-headlines","17":"tag-sacramento-news","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-womens-college-basketball","20":"tag-womens-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193087","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=193087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}