Missouri takes on Oral Roberts, looks for 6th straight victory

Oral Roberts Golden Eagles (7-3) at Missouri Tigers (10-3)

Columbia, Missouri; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: Missouri comes into a matchup with Oral Roberts as winners of five straight games.

The Tigers are 8-1 in home games. Missouri is ninth in the SEC in team defense, allowing 57.1 points while holding opponents to 37.7% shooting.

The Golden Eagles are 2-3 on the road. Oral Roberts is the Summit leader with 37.6 rebounds per game led by Ruthie Udoumoh averaging 9.4.

Missouri makes 46.2% of its shots from the field this season, which is 4.2 percentage points higher than Oral Roberts has allowed to its opponents (42.0%). Oral Roberts averages 6.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.6 more made shots on average than the 5.2 per game Missouri gives up.

TOP PERFORMERS: Abbey Schreacke is shooting 41.6% from beyond the arc with 2.8 made 3-pointers per game for the Tigers, while averaging 11.2 points.

Jalei Oglesby is scoring 16.4 points per game and averaging 6.4 rebounds for the Golden Eagles.

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

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