Tennessee State Tigers (4-6) at Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles (8-3)

Evansville, Indiana; Thursday, 6 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: Sanaa’ St. Andre and Tennessee State take on Ali Saunders and Southern Indiana on Thursday.

The Screaming Eagles are 5-0 on their home court. Southern Indiana is 8-0 when it has fewer turnovers than its opponents and averages 15.3 turnovers per game.

The Tigers are 1-6 on the road. Tennessee State ranks second in the OVC with 10.6 offensive rebounds per game led by Lyric Cole averaging 2.9.

Southern Indiana’s average of 6.6 made 3-pointers per game this season is only 0.9 fewer made shots on average than the 7.5 per game Tennessee State allows. Tennessee State has shot at a 38.0% rate from the field this season, 3.1 percentage points above the 34.9% shooting opponents of Southern Indiana have averaged.

The Screaming Eagles and Tigers meet Thursday for the first time in conference play this season.

TOP PERFORMERS: Vanessa Shafford is shooting 44.9% from beyond the arc with 2.0 made 3-pointers per game for the Screaming Eagles, while averaging 11.5 points, 6.1 rebounds and 2.3 steals.

Somah Kamara is averaging 15.7 points for the Tigers.

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