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Texas Southern plays NC State on 5-game road slide

Texas Southern Tigers (1-7) at NC State Wolfpack (7-4)

Raleigh, North Carolina; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EST

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Wolfpack -33.5; over/under is 158.5

BOTTOM LINE: Texas Southern will try to end its five-game road skid when the Tigers play NC State.

The Wolfpack are 6-1 in home games. NC State averages 87.6 points and has outscored opponents by 14.5 points per game.

The Tigers have gone 0-5 away from home. Texas Southern gives up 87.0 points to opponents and has been outscored by 15.9 points per game.

NC State averages 10.5 made 3-pointers per game, 1.4 more made shots than the 9.1 per game Texas Southern allows. Texas Southern has shot at a 43.2% rate from the field this season, 0.4 percentage points higher than the 42.8% shooting opponents of NC State have averaged.

TOP PERFORMERS: Darrion Williams is shooting 44.4% from beyond the arc with 2.2 made 3-pointers per game for the Wolfpack, while averaging 16 points, 5.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists. Quadir Copeland is shooting 56.5% and averaging 14.5 points over the last 10 games.

Troy Hupstead is scoring 14.7 points per game and averaging 7.9 rebounds for the Tigers. Duane Posey is averaging 9.6 points.

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

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