{"id":143632,"date":"2026-02-24T10:08:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/143632\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T10:08:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:08:24","slug":"queens-plays-eastern-kentucky-following-manns-26-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/143632\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens plays Eastern Kentucky following Mann&#8217;s 26-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queens Royals (17-12, 12-4 ASUN) at Eastern Kentucky Colonels (11-18, 7-9 ASUN)<\/p>\n<p>Richmond, Kentucky; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: Queens takes on Eastern Kentucky after Nasir Mann scored 26 points in Queens&#8217; 91-84 victory over the West Georgia Wolves.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Colonels have gone 7-5 at home. Eastern Kentucky has a 4-9 record in games decided by 10 or more points.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals are 12-4 in ASUN play. Queens is sixth in the ASUN with 21.9 defensive rebounds per game led by Mann averaging 4.1.<\/p>\n<p>Eastern Kentucky averages 11.2 made 3-pointers per game, 2.5 more made shots than the 8.7 per game Queens allows. Queens averages 10.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.6 more made shots on average than the 8.4 per game Eastern Kentucky gives up.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The teams play for the second time in conference play this season. Queens won the last matchup 91-89 on Jan. 2. Jordan Watford scored 17 points to help lead the Royals to the win.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Juan Cranford Jr. is scoring 12.6 points per game with 2.6 rebounds and 1.6 assists for the Colonels. Montavious Myrick is averaging 14.1 points and 6.0 rebounds while shooting 61.4% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Mann is scoring 13.1 points per game with 5.6 rebounds and 2.8 assists for the Royals. Yoav Berman is averaging 14.9 points and 4.5 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Colonels: 4-6, averaging 81.5 points, 30.4 rebounds, 14.6 assists, 7.7 steals and 2.3 blocks per game while shooting 43.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 84.1 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Royals: 6-4, averaging 85.2 points, 28.6 rebounds, 14.3 assists, 6.5 steals and 3.1 blocks per game while shooting 50.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 80.8 points.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Data Skrive;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sportradar;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queens Royals (17-12, 12-4 ASUN) at Eastern Kentucky Colonels (11-18, 7-9 ASUN) Richmond, Kentucky; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EST&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[49219,60259,42038,17877,21533,9,24,63,17553,122,124,123,20033,11029,60260,23084,49217],"class_list":{"0":"post-143632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-asun","9":"tag-eastern-kentucky","10":"tag-eastern-kentucky-colonels","11":"tag-kentucky","12":"tag-nasir-mann","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-points-per-game","17":"tag-queens","18":"tag-queens-headlines","19":"tag-queens-news","20":"tag-queens-royals","21":"tag-richmond","22":"tag-the-colonels","23":"tag-the-royals","24":"tag-west-georgia-wolves"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143632","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=143632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143632\/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=143632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}