Mount St. Mary’s faces Ohio State on 3-game skid

Mount St. Mary’s Mountaineers (1-5) at Ohio State Buckeyes (5-0)

Columbus, Ohio; Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: Mount St. Mary’s looks to break its three-game losing streak with a victory over Ohio State.

The Buckeyes are 5-0 on their home court. Ohio State has a 4-0 record in games decided by 10 points or more.

The Mountaineers have gone 1-4 away from home. Mount St. Mary’s is 0-4 in games decided by 10 points or more.

Ohio State makes 51.5% of its shots from the field this season, which is 10.2 percentage points higher than Mount St. Mary’s has allowed to its opponents (41.3%). Mount St. Mary’s averages 65.8 points per game, 3.0 fewer than the 68.8 Ohio State allows.

TOP PERFORMERS: Bruce Thornton is scoring 22.4 points per game and averaging 3.8 rebounds for the Buckeyes. Christoph Tilly is averaging 17.4 points and 5.2 rebounds while shooting 54.0%.

Trey Deveaux is averaging 11.3 points for the Mountaineers. Luke McEldon is averaging 10.8 points and 5.8 rebounds.

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