Does not get any easier this week but two games at home with SFA first up.....
SFA is 68 in RPIs while Bears are 286 (last week)...
Jacks are 9-4 overall and 1-0 in SLC with a close 75-73 over Sam Houston State. Best wins other than Sam so far are a home win over Jackson State by 73-59, another home court win over Austin Peay by 93-54 and barn-burner over North Dakota State by 112-111. Losses are four road losses at Texas A&M (55-48), UL-Monore (60-58), Arkansas (67-51) and Texas Tech (69-55).
SFA has two of the Top 8 SLC scorers in #4 SR Josh Alexander (G, 6'4", 16.3ppg) including 21 at TAM and 17 at Arkansas and #8 SR Matt Kingsley (F, 6' 9", 14.9 ppg). Marcus Pillow is #1 at 12.1 ppg.
Kingsley and Alexander rank #16/#17 in rounding with about 6; UCA's Brian Mark is #2 at 9. Eric Bell leads SFA with assists at 3.7 for #7 and Eddie Williams (10.9 ppg) comes in at 3.1 for #15; Pillow leads UCA at 3.1 for #14.
SFA has four players shooting over 40% for 3s, including Alexander at 35/83 for 42%.
SFA won last year at their place by 57-43.
SFA stats summary:
PLAYER G MIN PPG RPG APG OFF DEF TOT AST STL BLK TO PF
J.Alexander 12 378 16.3 5.8 1.4 36 33 69 17 13 7 18 23
M.Kingsley 13 349 14.9 6.2 0.7 19 61 80 9 3 19 29 37
E.Williams 13 378 10.5 2.7 3.1 5 30 35 40 19 2 18 36
G.Adams 13 261 5.7 1.8 2.2 3 21 24 28 11 2 18 30
B.Akpan 13 137 5.6 4.4 0.2 20 37 57 2 1 10 12 19
J.Scott 9 96 5.2 3.8 0.1 15 19 34 1 2 3 9 15
N.Shaw 13 347 5.0 5.2 1.2 12 56 68 16 9 2 21 40
W.Harris 11 122 4.3 1.0 0.4 3 8 11 4 3 0 9 20
More data at:
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