Jacksonville Dolphins (9-14, 4-6 ASUN) at Queens Royals (12-11, 7-3 ASUN)<\/p>\n
Charlotte, North Carolina; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Queens aims to break its three-game losing streak when the Royals play Jacksonville.<\/p>\n
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The Royals are 8-1 on their home court. Queens ranks third in the ASUN with 16.2 assists per game led by Jordan Watford averaging 3.7.<\/p>\n
The Dolphins are 4-6 in ASUN play. Jacksonville is 2-2 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n
Queens averages 10.5 made 3-pointers per game, 3.7 more made shots than the 6.8 per game Jacksonville gives up. Jacksonville has shot at a 45.2% clip from the field this season, 1.8 percentage points below the 47.0% shooting opponents of Queens have averaged.<\/p>\n
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The matchup Thursday is the first meeting of the season for the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Nasir Mann is averaging 13.1 points and 5.6 rebounds for the Royals. Watford is averaging 13.7 points and 3.2 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Hayden Wood is averaging 10.1 points for the Dolphins. Evan Sterck is averaging 1.1 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 7-3, averaging 84.5 points, 32.2 rebounds, 16.3 assists, 5.2 steals and 2.7 blocks per game while shooting 47.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 76.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
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Dolphins: 4-6, averaging 67.1 points, 30.0 rebounds, 10.5 assists, 7.0 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 44.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 68.3 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":"Jacksonville Dolphins (9-14, 4-6 ASUN) at Queens Royals (12-11, 7-3 ASUN) Charlotte, North Carolina; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[49221,49219,4458,44005,9,24,1064,63,17553,122,124,123,20033,53575,23084],"class_list":["post-122440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-assists-per-game","tag-asun","tag-charlotte","tag-jacksonville-dolphins","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-north-carolina","tag-nyc","tag-points-per-game","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-queens-royals","tag-the-dolphins","tag-the-royals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122440","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=122440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122440\/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=122440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}