Jacksonville State Gamecocks (11-11, 6-5 CUSA) at Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders (12-11, 7-4 CUSA)<\/p>\n
Murfreesboro, Tennessee; Thursday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Jacksonville State plays Middle Tennessee after Mya Barnes scored 20 points in Jacksonville State’s 61-58 win over the Delaware Fightin’ Blue Hens.<\/p>\n
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The Blue Raiders are 6-4 on their home court. Middle Tennessee is 6-2 when it has fewer turnovers than its opponents and averages 16.5 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n
The Gamecocks are 6-5 against conference opponents. Jacksonville State has a 3-0 record in one-possession games.<\/p>\n
Middle Tennessee is shooting 40.3% from the field this season, 0.4 percentage points lower than the 40.7% Jacksonville State allows to opponents. Jacksonville State averages 62.3 points per game, 3.0 more than the 59.3 Middle Tennessee gives up.<\/p>\n
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The Blue Raiders and Gamecocks face off Thursday for the first time in conference play this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Alayna Contreras is averaging 13.1 points for the Blue Raiders. Savannah Davis is averaging 2.5 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Barnes is shooting 41.2% from beyond the arc with 2.2 made 3-pointers per game for the Gamecocks, while averaging 11.9 points and 8.4 rebounds. Adriana Jones is averaging 9.6 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Blue Raiders: 6-4, averaging 66.3 points, 33.3 rebounds, 12.4 assists, 7.2 steals and 2.8 blocks per game while shooting 43.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 56.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
Gamecocks: 5-5, averaging 59.1 points, 30.4 rebounds, 10.1 assists, 6.1 steals and 2.9 blocks per game while shooting 37.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 61.1 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 The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville State Gamecocks (11-11, 6-5 CUSA) at Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders (12-11, 7-4 CUSA) Murfreesboro, Tennessee; Thursday, 7:30…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[73103,116,118,117,4642,18833,3732,73104,73105,10195],"class_list":{"0":"post-151404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-blue-raiders","9":"tag-jacksonville","10":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","11":"tag-jacksonville-news","12":"tag-jacksonville-state-gamecocks","13":"tag-middle-tennessee","14":"tag-middle-tennessee-blue-raiders","15":"tag-murfreesboro","16":"tag-mya-barnes","17":"tag-tennessee"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151404","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=151404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}