Evansville Purple Aces (3-5) at Vanderbilt Commodores (9-1)
Nashville, Tennessee; Saturday, 3 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Evansville visits Vanderbilt after Julia Palomo scored 26 points in Evansville’s 87-74 victory over the SIU-Edwardsville Cougars.
The Commodores have gone 6-0 at home. Vanderbilt has a 9-0 record in games decided by at least 10 points.
The Purple Aces have gone 0-3 away from home. Evansville ranks eighth in the MVC shooting 33.5% from 3-point range.
Vanderbilt makes 46.8% of its shots from the field this season, which is 6.1 percentage points higher than Evansville has allowed to its opponents (40.7%). Evansville averages 6.5 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.3 more made shots on average than the 5.2 per game Vanderbilt gives up.
TOP PERFORMERS: Mikayla Blakes averages 2.6 made 3-pointers per game for the Commodores, scoring 20.2 points while shooting 36.1% from beyond the arc.
Camryn Runner is scoring 19.6 points per game and averaging 5.3 rebounds for the Purple Aces.
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