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Queens visits No. 17 Arkansas following Brazile’s 24-point performance

Queens Royals (5-6) at Arkansas Razorbacks (8-2)

Fayetteville, Arkansas; Tuesday, 9 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: No. 17 Arkansas hosts Queens after Trevon Brazile scored 24 points in Arkansas’ 93-86 win against the Texas Tech Red Raiders.

The Razorbacks have gone 6-0 in home games. Arkansas has a 1-1 record in games decided by less than 4 points.

The Royals have gone 0-5 away from home. Queens ranks second in the ASUN shooting 36.8% from 3-point range.

Arkansas is shooting 47.9% from the field this season, 1.5 percentage points higher than the 46.4% Queens allows to opponents. Queens averages 11.9 more points per game (84.4) than Arkansas allows (72.5).

TOP PERFORMERS: Darius Acuff Jr. is shooting 46.4% and averaging 17.7 points for the Razorbacks. Meleek Thomas is averaging 2.4 made 3-pointers.

Chris Ashby is shooting 40.6% from beyond the arc with 3.5 made 3-pointers per game for the Royals, while averaging 13 points. Nasir Mann is averaging 15.6 points and 5.2 rebounds over the past 10 games.

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

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