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Maine faces Canisius on home slide

Canisius Golden Griffins (4-6, 0-2 MAAC) at Maine Black Bears (1-11)

Orono, Maine; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: Maine hosts Canisius looking to end its three-game home skid.

The Black Bears have gone 0-2 in home games. Maine is 0-6 against opponents over .500.

The Golden Griffins are 0-5 in road games. Canisius gives up 70.5 points to opponents and has been outscored by 9.8 points per game.

Maine is shooting 44.0% from the field this season, 0.2 percentage points lower than the 44.2% Canisius allows to opponents. Canisius’ 40.4% shooting percentage from the field this season is 3.9 percentage points lower than Maine has allowed to its opponents (44.3%).

TOP PERFORMERS: TJ Biel is averaging 12.1 points and 1.5 blocks for the Black Bears. Keelan Steele is averaging 9.1 points over the last 10 games.

Kahlil Singleton is shooting 35.5% from beyond the arc with 2.7 made 3-pointers per game for the Golden Griffins, while averaging 10.9 points. Bryan Ndjonga is averaging 10.9 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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