Norfolk State Spartans (5-8) at UTEP Miners (3-6)<\/p>\n
El Paso, Texas; Sunday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Norfolk State visits UTEP after Elijah Jamison scored 30 points in Norfolk State\u2019s 82-72 victory over the Jackson State Tigers.<\/p>\n
The Miners are 3-1 in home games. UTEP is 2-3 when it wins the turnover battle and averages 12.2 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n
The Spartans have gone 0-6 away from home. Norfolk State is the MEAC leader with 33.4 rebounds per game led by Anthony McComb III averaging 5.2.<\/p>\n
UTEP is shooting 44.3% from the field this season, 1.5 percentage points higher than the 42.8% Norfolk State allows to opponents. Norfolk State has shot at a 46.4% rate from the field this season, 2.4 percentage points greater than the 44.0% shooting opponents of UTEP have averaged.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Elijah Jones is shooting 56.8% and averaging 14.0 points for the Miners. Caleb Blackwell is averaging 0.9 made 3-pointers.<\/p>\n
Jamison is scoring 16.5 points per game and averaging 3.5 rebounds for the Spartans. McComb is averaging 15.6 points and 5.5 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/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":"Norfolk State Spartans (5-8) at UTEP Miners (3-6) El Paso, Texas; Sunday, 9 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Norfolk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[44424,44425,2692,416,138,140,139,44423,44422,4862,154,27,1760,5076,3142],"class_list":["post-95458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-anthony-mccomb-iii","tag-caleb-blackwell","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-elijah-jamison","tag-elijah-jones","tag-mens-college-basketball","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-tx-state-wire","tag-utep-miners","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95458","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=95458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}