Mercyhurst Lakers (3-4) at West Virginia Mountaineers (5-2)<\/p>\n
Morgantown, West Virginia; Sunday, 3 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Mountaineers -22.5; over\/under is 128.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Mercyhurst visits West Virginia after Jake Lemelman scored 21 points in Mercyhurst’s 69-60 loss to the Marshall Thundering Herd.<\/p>\n The Mountaineers are 5-0 in home games. West Virginia averages 9.1 turnovers per game and is 5-2 when it turns the ball over less than its opponents.<\/p>\n The Lakers are 1-4 in road games. Mercyhurst is 0-1 in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n West Virginia makes 43.9% of its shots from the field this season, which is 4.8 percentage points higher than Mercyhurst has allowed to its opponents (39.1%). Mercyhurst has shot at a 45.4% rate from the field this season, 5.4 percentage points higher than the 40.0% shooting opponents of West Virginia have averaged.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Honor Huff is shooting 42.0% and averaging 17.0 points for the Mountaineers. Treysen Eaglestaff is averaging 7.1 points.<\/p>\n Bernie Blunt is scoring 16.6 points per game and averaging 2.9 rebounds for the Lakers. Lemelman is averaging 14.0 points and 2.7 rebounds.<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n For copyright information, check with the distributor of this item, Data Skrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mercyhurst Lakers (3-4) at West Virginia Mountaineers (5-2) Morgantown, West Virginia; Sunday, 3 p.m. EST BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[6810,6811,136,138,137,14500,28151,726,6746],"class_list":["post-48511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-ap","tag-associated-press","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-men","tag-mercyhurst-west-virginia-preview","tag-sports","tag-wire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}