Evansville hosts Born and Northern Iowa

Evansville Purple Aces (2-7, 0-1 MVC) at Northern Iowa Panthers (2-4, 0-1 MVC)

Cedar Falls, Iowa; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: Northern Iowa takes on the Evansville Purple Aces after Bowen Born scored 22 points in Northern Iowa's 68-53 loss to the Bradley Braves.

The Panthers have gone 2-0 at home. Northern Iowa ranks third in the MVC shooting 35.4% from deep, led by Michael Duax shooting 60.0% from 3-point range.

The Purple Aces have gone 0-1 against MVC opponents. Evansville has a 0-4 record in games decided by 10 points or more.

The Panthers and Purple Aces match up Saturday for the first time in MVC play this season.

TOP PERFORMERS: Born is scoring 20.5 points per game and averaging 2.5 rebounds for the Panthers. Logan Wolf is averaging 1.5 made 3-pointers for Northern Iowa.

Kenny Strawbridge is averaging 16.4 points for the Purple Aces. Yacine Toumi is averaging 10.0 points for Evansville.

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