Florida A&M Rattlers (7-19, 6-9 SWAC) at Southern Jaguars (14-11, 10-4 SWAC)<\/p>\n
Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Thursday, 6 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Florida A&M aims to end its four-game slide with a win against Southern.<\/p>\n
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The Jaguars have gone 7-2 at home. Southern has a 0-2 record in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n
The Rattlers are 6-9 in conference games. Florida A&M allows 69.9 points to opponents and has been outscored by 11.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
Southern is shooting 37.6% from the field this season, 3.7 percentage points lower than the 41.3% Florida A&M allows to opponents. Florida A&M averages 2.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.4 fewer made shots on average than the 4.3 per game Southern gives up.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the second time in conference play this season. Florida A&M won 60-57 in the last matchup on Jan. 10. Tahnyjia Purifoy led Florida A&M with 21 points, and Jocelyn Tate led Southern with 10 points.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: DeMya Porter is averaging 10 points and 5.3 rebounds for the Jaguars. Olivia Delancy is averaging 9.2 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Purifoy is averaging 11.1 points, 3.5 assists and 1.8 steals for the Rattlers. Shaniyah McCarthy is averaging 13.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Jaguars: 7-3, averaging 62.8 points, 34.2 rebounds, 13.5 assists, 11.8 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 38.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 52.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
Rattlers: 3-7, averaging 59.4 points, 32.5 rebounds, 8.6 assists, 7.2 steals and 2.7 blocks per game while shooting 35.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 63.7 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 (7-19, 6-9 SWAC) at Southern Jaguars (14-11, 10-4 SWAC) Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Thursday, 6 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[31623,80221,232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-168528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-points-per-game","9":"tag-southern-jaguars","10":"tag-tallahassee","11":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","12":"tag-tallahassee-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168528","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=168528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168528\/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=168528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}