South Dakota visits Denker and Northern Colorado

South Dakota Coyotes (5-4) at Northern Colorado Bears (8-1)

Greeley, Colorado; Saturday, 8 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: Northern Colorado hosts South Dakota after Quinn Denker scored 22 points in Northern Colorado’s 75-70 victory against the Omaha Mavericks.

The Bears have gone 3-0 at home. Northern Colorado ranks seventh in the Big Sky with 8.4 offensive rebounds per game led by Brock Wisne averaging 2.6.

The Coyotes have gone 0-2 away from home. South Dakota is fifth in the Summit League giving up 79.2 points while holding opponents to 47.9% shooting.

Northern Colorado is shooting 49.5% from the field this season, 1.6 percentage points higher than the 47.9% South Dakota allows to opponents. South Dakota scores 12.6 more points per game (83.2) than Northern Colorado allows to opponents (70.6).

TOP PERFORMERS: Zack Bloch is shooting 52.5% from beyond the arc with 3.4 made 3-pointers per game for the Bears, while averaging 13.4 points and 1.7 steals. Denker is shooting 52.3% and averaging 18.7 points.

Isaac Bruns is scoring 18.3 points per game and averaging 4.6 rebounds for the Coyotes. Jordan Crawford is averaging 11.9 points.

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