Hammond leads Santa Clara against Utah Tech after 20-point showing

Utah Tech Trailblazers (5-5) at Santa Clara Broncos (7-1)

Santa Clara, California; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: Santa Clara hosts Utah Tech after Christian Hammond scored 20 points in Santa Clara’s 86-75 win against the Minnesota Golden Gophers.

The Broncos are 5-0 in home games. Santa Clara averages 80.9 points while outscoring opponents by 16.5 points per game.

The Trailblazers are 1-3 on the road. Utah Tech is 1-0 in games decided by less than 4 points.

Santa Clara makes 46.2% of its shots from the field this season, which is 3.1 percentage points higher than Utah Tech has allowed to its opponents (43.1%). Utah Tech averages 13.4 more points per game (77.8) than Santa Clara allows (64.4).

TOP PERFORMERS: Hammond is shooting 50.5% and averaging 16.6 points for the Broncos. Aleksandar Gavalyugov is averaging 1.5 made 3-pointers.

Ethan Potter is averaging 17.2 points and seven rebounds for the Trailblazers. Chance Trujillo is averaging 12.1 points.

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