Mount St. Mary’s faces Marist for conference matchup

Mount St. Mary’s Mountaineers (2-7, 0-1 MAAC) at Marist Red Foxes (4-2)

Poughkeepsie, New York; Friday, 7 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: Xavier Lipscomb and Mount St. Mary’s visit Rhyjon Blackwell and Marist in MAAC action Friday.

The Red Foxes have gone 3-1 in home games. Marist is 0-1 in one-possession games.

The Mountaineers are 0-1 against conference opponents. Mount St. Mary’s ranks sixth in the MAAC with 31.2 rebounds per game led by Luke McEldon averaging 5.9.

Marist averages 73.0 points per game, 8.6 fewer points than the 81.6 Mount St. Mary’s allows. Mount St. Mary’s averages 9.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 4.0 more made shots on average than the 5.0 per game Marist allows.

The matchup Friday is the first meeting this season for the two teams in conference play.

TOP PERFORMERS: Blackwell is shooting 40.6% and averaging 14.2 points for the Red Foxes. Justin Menard is averaging 1.3 made 3-pointers.

Arlandus Keyes is scoring 12.9 points per game and averaging 2.4 rebounds for the Mountaineers. McEldon is averaging 11.6 points.

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