Florida A&M Rattlers (7-16, 6-6 SWAC) at Jackson State Lady Tigers (7-17, 5-7 SWAC)<\/p>\n
Jackson, Mississippi; Saturday, 1 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Shaniyah McCarthy and Florida A&M take on Rhema Pegues and Jackson State in SWAC play Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Lady Tigers have gone 3-7 in home games. Jackson State gives up 65.3 points to opponents and has been outscored by 6.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Rattlers are 6-6 in conference games. Florida A&M is 3-14 in games decided by 10 points or more.<\/p>\n
Jackson State scores 59.3 points per game, 12.0 fewer points than the 71.3 Florida A&M allows. Florida A&M\u2019s 35.4% shooting percentage from the field this season is 7.6 percentage points lower than Jackson State has given up to its opponents (43.0%).<\/p>\n
The Lady Tigers and Rattlers match up Saturday for the first time in SWAC play this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Pegues is averaging 9.9 points for the Lady Tigers. Jaileyah Cotton is averaging 9.5 points, 3.3 assists and 1.5 steals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Miya Giles-Jones is averaging seven points and six rebounds for the Rattlers. McCarthy is averaging 14.2 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Lady Tigers: 5-5, averaging 57.1 points, 35.9 rebounds, 12.3 assists, 8.3 steals and 1.1 blocks per game while shooting 34.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 57.5 points per game.<\/p>\n
Rattlers: 5-5, averaging 64.7 points, 30.9 rebounds, 10.6 assists, 7.6 steals and 2.4 blocks per game while shooting 38.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 65.2 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":"Florida A&M Rattlers (7-16, 6-6 SWAC) at Jackson State Lady Tigers (7-17, 5-7 SWAC) Jackson, Mississippi; Saturday, 1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[8294,111,54256,1882,28,16495,74474,53473,62424,110,232,234,233,22051,22053],"class_list":{"0":"post-154453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-college-basketball","9":"tag-college-sports","10":"tag-data-skrive","11":"tag-fl-state-wire","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-mississippi","14":"tag-miya-giles-jones","15":"tag-ms-state-wire","16":"tag-send-to-apple-news","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-tallahassee","19":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","20":"tag-tallahassee-news","21":"tag-womens-college-basketball","22":"tag-womens-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154453","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=154453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}