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Richmond visits Mills and Liberty
Richmond Spiders (7-3, 1-0 A-10) at Liberty Lady Flames (6-2)
Lynchburg, Virginia; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Liberty faces Richmond after Avery Mills scored 24 points in Liberty’s 74-73 win against the George Mason Patriots.
The Flames are 3-1 on their home court. Liberty leads the CUSA with 27.5 defensive rebounds per game led by Ify Nwaobi averaging 7.5.
The Spiders are 2-1 in road games. Richmond is 7-3 in games decided by 10 or more points.
Liberty’s average of 7.4 made 3-pointers per game this season is only 0.7 more made shots on average than the 6.7 per game Richmond allows. Richmond has shot at a 45.0% rate from the field this season, 10.7 percentage points higher than the 34.3% shooting opponents of Liberty have averaged.
TOP PERFORMERS: Mills is shooting 45.5% and averaging 16.9 points for the Flames. Claudia Acin is averaging 9.6 points.
Maggie Doogan is shooting 45.1% from beyond the arc with 3.2 made 3-pointers per game for the Spiders, while averaging 23.1 points, nine rebounds, 5.2 assists and 1.5 blocks. Rachel Ullstrom is averaging 13.8 points and 5.9 rebounds.
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