East Carolina hosts Maryland-Eastern Shore following Riley’s 28-point performance

Maryland-Eastern Shore Hawks (4-6) at East Carolina Pirates (2-5)

Greenville, North Carolina; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: East Carolina hosts Maryland-Eastern Shore after Joran Riley scored 28 points in East Carolina’s 67-58 loss to the Saint Bonaventure Bonnies.

The Pirates have gone 2-1 at home. East Carolina ranks eighth in the AAC in rebounding with 32.9 rebounds. Giovanni Emejuru leads the Pirates with 9.7 boards.

The Hawks have gone 1-5 away from home. Maryland-Eastern Shore gives up 69.0 points to opponents while being outscored by 5.5 points per game.

East Carolina is shooting 38.9% from the field this season, 1.7 percentage points lower than the 40.6% Maryland-Eastern Shore allows to opponents. Maryland-Eastern Shore averages 6.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 4.2 fewer made shots on average than the 10.4 per game East Carolina allows.

TOP PERFORMERS: Tybo Bailey is shooting 26.5% from beyond the arc with 1.3 made 3-pointers per game for the Pirates, while averaging 9.9 points. Riley is shooting 45.8% and averaging 19.2 points.

Joseph Locandro is shooting 53.8% from beyond the arc with 2.1 made 3-pointers per game for the Hawks, while averaging 12.3 points. Justin Monden is averaging 8.5 points.

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