Western Michigan visits Blue and St. Thomas

Western Michigan Broncos (3-5) at Saint Thomas Tommies (7-4)

Saint Paul, Minnesota; Friday, 9 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: St. Thomas hosts Western Michigan after Kendall Blue scored 22 points in St. Thomas’ 88-81 victory against the Montana Grizzlies.

The Tommies are 4-0 on their home court. St. Thomas is ninth in the Summit League with 7.2 offensive rebounds per game led by Nolan Minessale averaging 1.3.

The Broncos are 1-3 on the road. Western Michigan has a 1-5 record against opponents above .500.

St. Thomas makes 49.5% of its shots from the field this season, which is 6.9 percentage points higher than Western Michigan has allowed to its opponents (42.6%). Western Michigan has shot at a 43.2% rate from the field this season, 1.1 percentage points below the 44.3% shooting opponents of St. Thomas have averaged.

TOP PERFORMERS: Carter Bjerke is shooting 50.0% from beyond the arc with 2.4 made 3-pointers per game for the Tommies, while averaging nine points.

Markhi Strickland is scoring 13.3 points per game and averaging 3.8 rebounds for the Broncos.

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