North Dakota State Bison (10-4) vs. UTEP Miners (3-7)<\/p>\n
El Paso, Texas; Monday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: North Dakota State and UTEP meet at Don Haskins Center in El Paso, Texas.<\/p>\n
The Miners have a 3-7 record in non-conference play. UTEP has a 1-1 record in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n
The Bison are 10-4 in non-conference play. North Dakota State ranks fourth in the Summit League with 22.9 defensive rebounds per game led by Trevian Carson averaging 4.2.<\/p>\n
UTEP is shooting 44.6% from the field this season, 0.7 percentage points higher than the 43.9% North Dakota State allows to opponents. North Dakota State averages 9.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.0 more made shots on average than the 7.2 per game UTEP gives up.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Caleb Blackwell is shooting 29.7% from beyond the arc with 1.1 made 3-pointers per game for the Miners, while averaging 8.9 points and 1.5 steals. Elijah Jones is shooting 56.3% and averaging 13.6 points.<\/p>\n
Damari Wheeler-Thomas is scoring 14.9 points per game with 2.9 rebounds and 3.4 assists for the Bison. Markhi Strickland is averaging 14.0 points and 4.6 rebounds while shooting 61.5% over the past 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":"North Dakota State Bison (10-4) vs. UTEP Miners (3-7) El Paso, Texas; Monday, 7 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[44425,2692,416,138,140,139,44422,4862,44828,23527,154,27,1760,5076],"class_list":["post-97155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-caleb-blackwell","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-elijah-jones","tag-mens-college-basketball","tag-nd-state-wire","tag-north-dakota","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-tx-state-wire","tag-utep-miners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97155","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=97155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97155\/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=97155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}