South Carolina State (0-15, 0-5) vs. NC A&T (8-9, 4-0)
Corbett Sports Center, Greensboro, North Carolina; Saturday 4pm EST
CONCLUSION: NC A&T seeks its seventh consecutive victory in the series face to face over the state of South Carolina. In its last six victories against the Bulldogs, NC A&T won by an average of 8 points. South Carolina’s last victory in the series was on February 10, 2018, a 90-85 victory.
SUPER SENIORS: NC A&T trusted their seniors a lot this year. Kameron Langley, Blake Harris, Kwe Parker and Tyler Maye added 37 percent of the team’s score this year and 47 percent of all Aggies points in the last five games.
INCREASING A NOTCH: The Aggies scored 76.8 points per game and have allowed 68.8 points per game in the conference so far. These are substantial improvements over the 55.4 points scored and 82.5 points given per game for opponents not participating in the conference.
MAIN CONTRIBUTOR: Themus Fulks has scored or helped 44 percent of all South Carolina’s field goals in the past three games. Fulks was responsible for 12 field goals and 22 assists in those games.
NO WIND WHEN: NC A&T is 0-5 this year when it scores 65 points or less and 8-4 when it scores at least 66.
UNDEFICIATED WHEN: NC A&T is a perfect 7-0 when keeping an opponent at 66 points or less. Aggies are 1-9 when opponents score more than 66 points.
DID YOU KNOW: The defense of NC A&T forced opponents to turn around an impressive 24.9% of all possessions, which is the tenth highest rate in the country. The state of South Carolina delivered the ball in 24.7 percent of its holdings (ranked 344th among Division I teams).
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