UAB Blazers (4-2) vs. Southern Illinois Salukis (3-2)<\/p>\n
Jacksonville, Florida; Monday, 1:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Blazers -2.5; over\/under is 163.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Southern Illinois plays UAB at John Hurst Adams Gymnasium in Jacksonville, Florida.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The Salukis have a 3-2 record in non-conference games. Southern Illinois is second in the MVC scoring 85.8 points while shooting 51.9% from the field.<\/p>\n The Blazers are 4-2 in non-conference play. UAB has a 4-1 record against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n Southern Illinois makes 51.9% of its shots from the field this season, which is 11.4 percentage points higher than UAB has allowed to its opponents (40.5%). UAB scores 17.4 more points per game (88.8) than Southern Illinois allows to opponents (71.4).<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Quel’Ron House is shooting 58.5% and averaging 18.2 points for the Salukis. Drew Steffe is averaging 7.6 points.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Chance Westry is scoring 19.2 points per game and averaging 4.2 rebounds for the Blazers. Jacob Meyer is averaging 15.7 points and 2.8 rebounds.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UAB Blazers (4-2) vs. Southern Illinois Salukis (3-2) Jacksonville, Florida; Monday, 1:30 p.m. EST BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Blazers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28,116,118,117,35754,35753,35755,10534],"class_list":["post-58601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-florida","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-southern-illinois","tag-southern-illinois-salukis","tag-the-blazers","tag-uab-blazers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58601","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=58601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}