{"id":128965,"date":"2026-01-23T10:23:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/128965\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T10:23:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:23:28","slug":"jacksonville-hosts-eastern-kentucky-following-woods-21-point-showing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/128965\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville hosts Eastern Kentucky following Wood&#8217;s 21-point showing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/eastern-kentucky-colonels-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eastern Kentucky Colonels<\/a> (7-13, 3-4 ASUN) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/jacksonville-dolphins-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacksonville Dolphins<\/a> (7-13, 2-5 ASUN)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Jacksonville, Florida; Saturday, 3 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Jacksonville hosts Eastern Kentucky after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/hayden-wood-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hayden Wood<\/a> scored 21 points in Jacksonville&#8217;s 77-70 loss to the Bellarmine Knights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Dolphins have gone 4-2 in home games. Jacksonville is 3-9 against opponents with a winning record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Colonels are 3-4 in ASUN play. Eastern Kentucky ranks 100th in college basketball averaging 11.7 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 35.5% from downtown. Juan Cranford Jr. leads the team averaging 2.9 makes while shooting 38.2% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Jacksonville is shooting 45.0% from the field this season, 2.4 percentage points lower than the 47.4% Eastern Kentucky allows to opponents. Eastern Kentucky averages 11.7 made 3-pointers per game this season, 4.8 more made shots on average than the 6.9 per game Jacksonville allows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The matchup Saturday is the first meeting of the season between the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: Wood is shooting 43.5% from beyond the arc with 2.0 made 3-pointers per game for the Dolphins, while averaging 10.1 points. Chris Lockett Jr. is shooting 36.8% and averaging 8.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Cranford is scoring 13.4 points per game with 2.7 rebounds and 1.7 assists for the Colonels. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/turner-buttry-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Turner Buttry<\/a> is averaging 11.8 points and 2.7 rebounds while shooting 42.9% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Dolphins: 2-8, averaging 67.4 points, 28.9 rebounds, 11.7 assists, 6.9 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 43.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 74.5 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Colonels: 4-6, averaging 76.6 points, 31.1 rebounds, 14.6 assists, 5.4 steals and 2.8 blocks per game while shooting 44.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 79.0 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eastern Kentucky Colonels (7-13, 3-4 ASUN) at Jacksonville Dolphins (7-13, 2-5 ASUN) Jacksonville, Florida; Saturday, 3 p.m. EST&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-128965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}