Pennsylvania Quakers (9-9, 2-3 Ivy League) at Columbia Lions (13-6, 2-3 Ivy League)<\/p>\n
New York; Friday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Columbia hosts Pennsylvania after Kenny Noland scored 29 points in Columbia’s 79-69 win over the Dartmouth Big Green.<\/p>\n
The Lions are 7-1 on their home court. Columbia leads the Ivy League in rebounding, averaging 37.0 boards. Connor Igoe paces the Lions with 5.2 rebounds.<\/p>\n
The Quakers are 2-3 against Ivy League opponents. Pennsylvania averages 76.9 points while outscoring opponents by 1.4 points per game.<\/p>\n
Columbia scores 80.5 points, 5.0 more per game than the 75.5 Pennsylvania gives up. Pennsylvania has shot at a 44.4% rate from the field this season, 2.7 percentage points above the 41.7% shooting opponents of Columbia have averaged.<\/p>\n
The matchup Friday is the first meeting this season for the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Noland is averaging 17.1 points and 3.4 assists for the Lions. Blair Thompson is averaging 11.3 points and 4.3 rebounds while shooting 46.8% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Ethan Roberts is shooting 46.0% from beyond the arc with 2.1 made 3-pointers per game for the Quakers, while averaging 19.5 points. TJ Power is shooting 42.3% and averaging 13.8 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Lions: 5-5, averaging 80.9 points, 35.1 rebounds, 15.9 assists, 6.0 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 47.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 77.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Quakers: 4-6, averaging 72.9 points, 31.6 rebounds, 13.8 assists, 5.1 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 43.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 74.2 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":"Pennsylvania Quakers (9-9, 2-3 Ivy League) at Columbia Lions (13-6, 2-3 Ivy League) New York; Friday, 7 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[48669,1165,10150,2300,16220,28,30,29,726],"class_list":["post-99768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-48669","tag-article","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-mens-college-basketball","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99768","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=99768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}