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Villanova Wildcats (5-5) at Delaware Fightin’ Blue Hens (3-5)

Newark, Delaware; Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: Delaware takes on Villanova after Rebecca Demeke scored 21 points in Delaware’s 73-26 win against the Delaware State Hornets.

The Fightin’ Blue Hens have gone 2-1 in home games. Delaware has a 2-4 record in games decided by 10 points or more.

The Wildcats are 1-2 in road games. Villanova ranks fifth in the Big East shooting 33.9% from 3-point range.

Delaware scores 61.9 points per game, 3.6 fewer points than the 65.5 Villanova allows. Villanova averages 65.0 points per game, 3.9 more than the 61.1 Delaware allows to opponents.

TOP PERFORMERS: Demeke is shooting 34.9% from beyond the arc with 2.5 made 3-pointers per game for the Fightin’ Blue Hens, while averaging 11.5 points and 1.7 steals.

Jasmine Bascoe is scoring 15.5 points per game and averaging 4.1 rebounds for the Wildcats.

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