Manhattan Jaspers (5-17, 5-8 MAAC) at Siena Saints (10-12, 8-5 MAAC)<\/p>\n
Loudonville, New York; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Siena hosts Manhattan after Francesca Schiro scored 21 points in Siena\u2019s 75-62 victory against the Saint Peter\u2019s Peacocks.<\/p>\n
The Saints have gone 6-4 in home games. Siena averages 68.0 points while outscoring opponents by 2.6 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Jaspers are 5-8 in MAAC play. Manhattan has a 0-13 record against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n
Siena is shooting 38.8% from the field this season, 1.8 percentage points lower than the 40.6% Manhattan allows to opponents. Manhattan has shot at a 37.2% clip from the field this season, 1.4 percentage points less than the 38.6% shooting opponents of Siena have averaged.<\/p>\n
The Saints and Jaspers square off Saturday for the first time in conference play this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Nicole Melious averages 2.1 made 3-pointers per game for the Saints, scoring 11.4 points while shooting 32.0% from beyond the arc. Schiro is averaging 17.5 points, 3.3 assists and 1.8 steals over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Brianna Davis is averaging 14.2 points and 1.5 steals for the Jaspers. Elisa Sole Sanchez is averaging 1.2 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Saints: 5-5, averaging 70.0 points, 34.7 rebounds, 14.9 assists, 7.2 steals and 2.7 blocks per game while shooting 40.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 69.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
Jaspers: 4-6, averaging 59.7 points, 31.8 rebounds, 15.4 assists, 8.7 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 41.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 60.1 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 (5-17, 5-8 MAAC) at Siena Saints (10-12, 8-5 MAAC) Loudonville, New York; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[4567,19365,3361,11496,52214,54429,54428,75,84,83,9,24,54430,63,48202,319,6223,16355],"class_list":["post-125278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-basketball","tag-brianna-davis","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-data-skrive","tag-elisa-sole-sanchez","tag-francesca-schiro","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nicole-melious","tag-nyc","tag-send-to-apple-news","tag-sports","tag-womens-sports","tag-womens-college-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125278","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=125278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125278\/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=125278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}