Mincy leads George Mason against Cornell after 25-point game

Cornell Big Red (5-2) at George Mason Patriots (8-0)

Fairfax, Virginia; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: George Mason hosts Cornell after Kory Mincy scored 25 points in George Mason’s 82-66 victory against the James Madison Dukes.

The Patriots have gone 6-0 in home games. George Mason averages 80.0 points while outscoring opponents by 17.6 points per game.

The Big Red are 2-2 on the road. Cornell leads college basketball averaging 15.3 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 42.0% from downtown. Cooper Noard leads the team averaging 3.4 makes while shooting 44.4% from 3-point range.

George Mason makes 48.8% of its shots from the field this season, which is 4.6 percentage points higher than Cornell has allowed to its opponents (44.2%). Cornell averages 15.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 8.3 more made shots on average than the 7.0 per game George Mason gives up.

TOP PERFORMERS: Mincy is scoring 19.6 points per game and averaging 3.6 rebounds for the Patriots. Jahari Long is averaging 12.3 points and 3.6 rebounds while shooting 48.1%.

Noard is scoring 21.7 points per game and averaging 4.6 rebounds for the Big Red. Adam Tsang Hinton is averaging 13.4 points.

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