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Lehigh visits Johnston and Towson

Lehigh Mountain Hawks (4-6) at Towson Tigers (5-5)

Towson, Maryland; Saturday, 12 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: Towson hosts Lehigh after India Johnston scored 26 points in Towson’s 87-86 victory against the Maryland-Eastern Shore Hawks.

The Tigers have gone 3-1 at home. Towson is second in the CAA scoring 73.5 points while shooting 41.6% from the field.

The Mountain Hawks are 1-4 on the road. Lehigh is 1-0 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.

Towson is shooting 41.6% from the field this season, 3.7 percentage points lower than the 45.3% Lehigh allows to opponents. Lehigh averages 65.3 points per game, 7.9 fewer points than the 73.2 Towson allows to opponents.

TOP PERFORMERS: Johnston is scoring 14.0 points per game with 2.1 rebounds and 2.9 assists for the Tigers. Zoli Khalil is averaging 12.3 points and 3.4 rebounds while shooting 41.7%.

Leia Edwards is averaging 13.7 points, seven rebounds, 3.2 assists and 1.6 steals for the Mountain Hawks. Jessie Ozzauto is averaging 13.1 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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