Lipscomb, Mount St. Mary’s Mountaineers square off against the Marist Red Foxes

Mount St. Mary’s Mountaineers (2-7, 0-1 MAAC) at Marist Red Foxes (4-2)

Poughkeepsie, New York; Friday, 7 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: Xavier Lipscomb and Mount St. Mary’s visit Rhyjon Blackwell and Marist in MAAC action.

The Red Foxes are 3-1 on their home court. Marist has a 4-0 record in games decided by 10 or more points.

The Mountaineers are 0-1 in MAAC play. Mount St. Mary’s is eighth in the MAAC scoring 68.2 points per game and is shooting 44.1%.

Marist scores 73.0 points per game, 8.6 fewer points than the 81.6 Mount St. Mary’s gives up. Mount St. Mary’s has shot at a 44.1% clip from the field this season, 7.7 percentage points greater than the 36.4% shooting opponents of Marist have averaged.

The matchup Friday is the first meeting of the season between the two teams in conference play.

TOP PERFORMERS: Blackwell is shooting 40.6% and averaging 14.2 points for the Red Foxes. Justin Menard is averaging 1.3 made 3-pointers.

Arlandus Keyes is averaging 12.9 points for the Mountaineers. Luke McEldon is averaging 11.6 points and 5.9 rebounds.

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