Mercyhurst Lakers (6-8) at West Virginia Mountaineers (8-2, 1-0 Big 12)
Morgantown, West Virginia; Sunday, 2 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: West Virginia plays Mercyhurst after Javon Small scored 27 points in West Virginia’s 84-61 victory against the Bethune-Cookman Wildcats.
The Mountaineers are 6-0 in home games. West Virginia averages 78.5 points while outscoring opponents by 12.9 points per game.
The Lakers have gone 2-7 away from home. Mercyhurst ranks sixth in the NEC shooting 32.6% from 3-point range.
West Virginia averages 78.5 points, 9.4 more per game than the 69.1 Mercyhurst allows. Mercyhurst has shot at a 44.0% rate from the field this season, 5.9 percentage points higher than the 38.1% shooting opponents of West Virginia have averaged.
TOP PERFORMERS: Small is shooting 44.9% and averaging 19.8 points for the Mountaineers.
Jeff Planutis is scoring 14.9 points per game and averaging 2.0 rebounds for the Lakers.
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