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Mississippi Valley State visits Mercer on 6-game road skid

Mississippi Valley State Devilettes (1-7) at Mercer Bears (5-5)

Macon, Georgia; Sunday, 2 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: Mississippi Valley State travels to Mercer looking to stop its six-game road losing streak.

The Bears have gone 2-1 at home. Mercer ranks fourth in the SoCon at limiting opponent scoring, giving up 64.1 points while holding opponents to 41.3% shooting.

The Devilettes have gone 0-6 away from home. Mississippi Valley State is 1-6 against opponents with a winning record.

Mercer is shooting 38.4% from the field this season, 9.7 percentage points lower than the 48.1% Mississippi Valley State allows to opponents. Mississippi Valley State’s 32.9% shooting percentage from the field this season is 8.4 percentage points lower than Mercer has allowed to its opponents (41.3%).

TOP PERFORMERS: Ariana Bennett is scoring 12.2 points per game and averaging 3.9 rebounds for the Bears. Micah O’Dell is averaging 1.6 made 3-pointers.

Kylah McCullers is scoring 9.8 points per game and averaging 0.6 rebounds for the Devilettes. Ariel Jefferson is averaging 9.6 points and 6.5 rebounds.

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

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