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Davidson hosts Ford and Temple

Temple Owls (6-5) at Davidson Wildcats (8-2)

Davidson, North Carolina; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: Temple visits Davidson after Derrian Ford scored 24 points in Temple’s 95-67 win against the Saint Francis (PA) Red Flash.

The Wildcats are 6-1 in home games. Davidson scores 76.4 points while outscoring opponents by 9.3 points per game.

The Owls are 0-1 in road games. Temple is 3-4 against opponents with a winning record.

Davidson averages 76.4 points per game, 3.3 more points than the 73.1 Temple gives up. Temple has shot at a 48.0% rate from the field this season, 3.2 percentage points greater than the 44.8% shooting opponents of Davidson have averaged.

TOP PERFORMERS: Josh Scovens is scoring 11.2 points per game with 4.2 rebounds and 1.3 assists for the Wildcats. Sam Brown is averaging 9.6 points and 1.5 rebounds while shooting 41.8%.

Gavin Griffiths is averaging 10.9 points and 1.8 blocks for the Owls. Ford is averaging 18.5 points over the last 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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