Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles to visit South Carolina Upstate Spartans Wednesday

Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles (2-3) at South Carolina Upstate Spartans (3-2)

Spartanburg, South Carolina; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: South Carolina Upstate faces Tennessee Tech in a matchup of Division 1 Division teams.

The Spartans are 2-0 on their home court. South Carolina Upstate has a 1-0 record in games decided by less than 4 points.

The Golden Eagles are 0-2 in road games. Tennessee Tech ranks fourth in the OVC with 26.4 defensive rebounds per game led by Jacobe Whitted averaging 4.0.

South Carolina Upstate makes 49.3% of its shots from the field this season, which is 12.5 percentage points higher than Tennessee Tech has allowed to its opponents (36.8%). Tennessee Tech has shot at a 48.5% rate from the field this season, 8.8 percentage points higher than the 39.7% shooting opponents of South Carolina Upstate have averaged.

TOP PERFORMERS: Karmani Gregory is scoring 15.2 points per game and averaging 2.6 rebounds for the Spartans. Carmelo Adkins is averaging 14.8 points and 5.0 rebounds while shooting 50.0%.

Mekhi Cameron is scoring 13.0 points per game and averaging 3.8 rebounds for the Golden Eagles. JaJuan Nicholls is averaging 11.4 points.

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