Texas A&M-CC Islanders (4-17, 3-11 Southland) at Nicholls Colonels (10-11, 6-8 Southland)<\/p>\n
Thibodaux, Louisiana; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Texas A&M-CC hits the road against Nicholls looking to break its 11-game road losing streak.<\/p>\n
The Colonels have gone 5-5 at home. Nicholls is 2-9 against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n
The Islanders are 3-11 in Southland play. Texas A&M-CC is 1-2 when it turns the ball over less than its opponents and averages 19.6 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n
Nicholls scores 65.3 points per game, 2.8 fewer points than the 68.1 Texas A&M-CC allows. Texas A&M-CC has shot at a 38.4% rate from the field this season, 0.7 percentage points fewer than the 39.1% shooting opponents of Nicholls have averaged.<\/p>\n
The matchup Saturday is the first meeting of the season for the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Marie Kenembeni is averaging 10.4 points for the Colonels. Jesslynn Jalomo is averaging 1.8 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Asha Walker is shooting 37.0% from beyond the arc with 2.4 made 3-pointers per game for the Islanders, while averaging 8.9 points. Chelsea Wooten is shooting 30.6% and averaging 9.3 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Colonels: 3-7, averaging 62.4 points, 33.4 rebounds, 10.1 assists, 11.0 steals and 2.6 blocks per game while shooting 36.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 64.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Islanders: 2-8, averaging 56.6 points, 33.4 rebounds, 12.1 assists, 5.0 steals and 3.1 blocks per game while shooting 39.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 65.4 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":"Texas A&M-CC Islanders (4-17, 3-11 Southland) at Nicholls Colonels (10-11, 6-8 Southland) Thibodaux, Louisiana; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[47803,1770,31595,2692,416,155,157,156,49066,16015,1192,63635,57554,154,27,260,1760,14445,7787],"class_list":["post-153936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-asha-walker","tag-basketball","tag-chelsea-wooten","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-data-skrive","tag-la-state-wire","tag-louisiana","tag-marie-kenembeni","tag-send-to-apple-news","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-texas-am-aggies","tag-tx-state-wire","tag-womens-college-basketball","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}