La Salle Explorers to visit North Carolina Tar Heels Saturday

La Salle Explorers (6-4, 0-1 A-10) at North Carolina Tar Heels (5-4, 1-0 ACC)

Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Saturday, 4 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: North Carolina faces La Salle in a matchup of Division 1 Division teams.

The Tar Heels have gone 3-1 in home games. North Carolina leads the ACC with 27.6 defensive rebounds per game led by Jae’Lyn Withers averaging 4.4.

The Explorers are 1-1 on the road. La Salle is ninth in the A-10 scoring 77.1 points per game and is shooting 42.9%.

North Carolina is shooting 46.1% from the field this season, 1.6 percentage points higher than the 44.5% La Salle allows to opponents. La Salle has shot at a 42.9% rate from the field this season, 0.1 percentage points greater than the 42.8% shooting opponents of North Carolina have averaged.

TOP PERFORMERS: RJ Davis is scoring 18.1 points per game and averaging 4.3 rebounds for the Tar Heels.

Corey McKeithan is averaging 18.8 points and 3.1 assists for the Explorers.

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