{"id":125235,"date":"2026-02-06T16:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/125235\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T16:00:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:00:51","slug":"jones-grant-and-the-queens-nc-royals-host-conference-foe-north-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/125235\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones-Grant and the Queens (NC) Royals host conference foe North Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Alabama Lions (11-10, 6-4 ASUN) at Queens (NC) Royals (8-14, 2-9 ASUN)<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte, North Carolina; Saturday, 1 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: Brenae Jones-Grant and Queens (NC) host Alexsandra Alvarado and North Alabama in ASUN play Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals are 5-7 in home games. Queens (NC) has a 3-9 record against opponents above .500.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions have gone 6-4 against ASUN opponents. North Alabama averages 15.8 turnovers per game and is 5-4 when winning the turnover battle.<\/p>\n<p>Queens (NC) averages 60.6 points per game, 2.7 fewer points than the 63.3 North Alabama gives up. North Alabama has shot at a 40.1% rate from the field this season, 1.1 percentage points below the 41.2% shooting opponents of Queens (NC) have averaged.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals and Lions meet Saturday for the first time in conference play this season.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Jermany Mapp is averaging 10.3 points for the Royals. Dayuna Colvin is averaging 10.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarado is averaging 13.1 points and 1.6 steals for the Lions. Gabby Jackson is averaging 11.2 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 1-9, averaging 56.8 points, 29.3 rebounds, 10.6 assists, 6.6 steals and 2.4 blocks per game while shooting 34.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 71.8 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Lions: 6-4, averaging 62.7 points, 30.3 rebounds, 13.8 assists, 8.0 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 42.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 62.3 points.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Alabama Lions (11-10, 6-4 ASUN) at Queens (NC) Royals (8-14, 2-9 ASUN) Charlotte, North Carolina; Saturday, 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[5334,4567,3361,11496,52214,32562,9,24,1064,63,122,124,123,48202,319,6223,16355],"class_list":{"0":"post-125235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-alabama","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-college-sports","12":"tag-data-skrive","13":"tag-nc-state-wire","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-north-carolina","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-queens","19":"tag-queens-headlines","20":"tag-queens-news","21":"tag-send-to-apple-news","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-womens-sports","24":"tag-womens-college-basketball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125235","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=125235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}