Manhattan Jaspers (4-12, 4-3 MAAC) at Fairfield Stags (13-3, 7-0 MAAC)<\/p>\n
Fairfield, Connecticut; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Manhattan faces Fairfield after Kristina Juric scored 22 points in Manhattan’s 68-59 win against the Mount St. Mary’s Mountaineers.<\/p>\n
The Stags are 6-0 in home games. Fairfield scores 79.2 points and has outscored opponents by 16.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Jaspers are 4-3 against conference opponents. Manhattan is seventh in the MAAC with 31.6 rebounds per game led by Agar Farres-Garcia averaging 7.6.<\/p>\n
Fairfield makes 46.9% of its shots from the field this season, which is 6.5 percentage points higher than Manhattan has allowed to its opponents (40.4%). Manhattan averages 54.9 points per game, 7.4 fewer points than the 62.3 Fairfield gives up.<\/p>\n
The matchup Saturday is the first meeting of the season between the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Kaety L’Amoreaux is scoring 19.3 points per game with 5.7 rebounds and 4.4 assists for the Stags. Meghan Andersen is averaging 17.3 points and 5.1 rebounds while shooting 47.8% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Brianna Davis is scoring 11.9 points per game with 3.3 rebounds and 2.4 assists for the Jaspers. Colette Mulderig is averaging 12.5 points and 7.4 rebounds while shooting 51.0% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Stags: 9-1, averaging 80.5 points, 29.0 rebounds, 19.2 assists, 11.0 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 49.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 57.4 points per game.<\/p>\n
Jaspers: 4-6, averaging 57.4 points, 32.4 rebounds, 14.7 assists, 9.8 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 37.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 64.7 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":"Manhattan Jaspers (4-12, 4-3 MAAC) at Fairfield Stags (13-3, 7-0 MAAC) Fairfield, Connecticut; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST BOTTOM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-102282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}