Brown and Mississippi Valley State host North Texas

Fri, Dec 1, 2023
NCAAB News (AP)

Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils (0-7) at North Texas Mean Green (4-2)

Denton, Texas; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: Mississippi Valley State visits the North Texas Mean Green after Rayquan Brown scored 24 points in Mississippi Valley State's 68-65 overtime loss to the Pacific Tigers.

The Mean Green are 3-0 in home games. North Texas scores 69.3 points and has outscored opponents by 11.1 points per game.

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The Delta Devils have gone 0-7 away from home. Mississippi Valley State averages 14.7 turnovers per game and is 0-1 when committing fewer turnovers than opponents.

North Texas is shooting 43.3% from the field this season, 5.9 percentage points lower than the 49.2% Mississippi Valley State allows to opponents. Mississippi Valley State's 35.3% shooting percentage from the field this season is 4.4 percentage points lower than North Texas has allowed to its opponents (39.7%).

TOP PERFORMERS: Aaron Scott is scoring 15.7 points per game and averaging 5.2 rebounds for the Mean Green. Jason Edwards is averaging 2.0 made 3-pointers for North Texas.

Brown is scoring 16.3 points per game and averaging 4.4 rebounds for the Delta Devils. Donovan Sanders is averaging 10.4 points for Mississippi Valley State.

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.