Iona Gaels (13-9, 6-6 MAAC) at Manhattan Jaspers (5-15, 5-6 MAAC)<\/p>\n
Riverdale, New York; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Iona faces Manhattan after Ella Fajardo scored 21 points in Iona’s 87-63 loss to the Merrimack Warriors.<\/p>\n
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The Jaspers are 2-6 on their home court. Manhattan ranks seventh in the MAAC in rebounding with 30.8 rebounds. Agar Farres-Garcia leads the Jaspers with 6.9 boards.<\/p>\n
The Gaels are 6-6 against MAAC opponents. Iona ranks third in the MAAC giving up 60.6 points while holding opponents to 40.4% shooting.<\/p>\n
Manhattan averages 54.9 points per game, 5.7 fewer points than the 60.6 Iona allows. Iona averages 5.6 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.9 fewer makes per game than Manhattan gives up.<\/p>\n
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The matchup Saturday is the first meeting this season between the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Elisa Sole Sanchez is shooting 27.6% from beyond the arc with 1.2 made 3-pointers per game for the Jaspers, while averaging seven points and 1.5 steals. Colette Mulderig is averaging 13.5 points, eight rebounds and 2.3 blocks over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Isabellah Middleton is shooting 40.0% and averaging 13.5 points for the Gaels. Fajardo is averaging 1.5 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Jaspers: 5-5, averaging 60.5 points, 33.1 rebounds, 15.8 assists, 8.7 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 42.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 59.4 points per game.<\/p>\n
Gaels: 6-4, averaging 63.4 points, 30.9 rebounds, 13.6 assists, 7.4 steals and 1.3 blocks per game while shooting 37.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 63.2 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 The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iona Gaels (13-9, 6-6 MAAC) at Manhattan Jaspers (5-15, 5-6 MAAC) Riverdale, New York; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[51758,49931,38447,75,84,18235,83,51759,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-117221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-ella-fajardo","9":"tag-iona-gaels","10":"tag-maac","11":"tag-manhattan","12":"tag-manhattan-headlines","13":"tag-manhattan-jaspers","14":"tag-manhattan-news","15":"tag-merrimack-warriors","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117221","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=117221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}