Western Illinois Leathernecks (5-1) at Cincinnati Bearcats (5-2)

Cincinnati; Friday, 6:30 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: Cincinnati plays Western Illinois after Jillian Hayes scored 26 points in Cincinnati’s 78-49 victory against the Central Connecticut State Blue Devils.

The Bearcats are 3-1 in home games. Cincinnati scores 67.7 points and has outscored opponents by 12.8 points per game.

The Leathernecks are 3-0 on the road. Western Illinois ranks second in the OVC with 10.5 offensive rebounds per game led by Raegan McCowan averaging 2.8.

Cincinnati makes 40.2% of its shots from the field this season, which is 3.3 percentage points higher than Western Illinois has allowed to its opponents (36.9%). Western Illinois averages 8.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.8 more made shots on average than the 7.0 per game Cincinnati gives up.

TOP PERFORMERS: Hayes is scoring 21.0 points per game and averaging 9.7 rebounds for the Bearcats.

McCowan is averaging 21 points and 8.5 rebounds for the Leathernecks.

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