Illinois State hosts Eastern Kentucky after Pence’s 20-point game

Eastern Kentucky Colonels (1-6) at Illinois State Redbirds (6-2)

Normal, Illinois; Wednesday, 8 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: Illinois State hosts Eastern Kentucky after Ty Pence scored 20 points in Illinois State’s 72-65 win over the Furman Paladins.

The Redbirds have gone 3-0 in home games. Illinois State ranks sixth in the MVC with 8.9 offensive rebounds per game led by Chase Walker averaging 2.0.

The Colonels have gone 0-3 away from home. Eastern Kentucky ranks ninth in the ASUN shooting 31.8% from 3-point range.

Illinois State scores 78.9 points per game, 5.7 fewer points than the 84.6 Eastern Kentucky allows. Eastern Kentucky averages 10.6 made 3-pointers per game this season, 4.2 more made shots on average than the 6.4 per game Illinois State allows.

TOP PERFORMERS: Johnny Kinziger is shooting 36.1% from beyond the arc with 1.6 made 3-pointers per game for the Redbirds, while averaging 12.3 points. Ty’Reek Coleman is shooting 55.2% and averaging 13.6 points.

Montavious Myrick is scoring 13.0 points per game and averaging 6.6 rebounds for the Colonels. Juan Cranford Jr. is averaging 11.1 points.

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