Loyola Chicago faces Northern Illinois on home losing streak

Northern Illinois Huskies (2-3) at Loyola Chicago Ramblers (1-4)

Chicago; Friday, 8 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: Loyola Chicago hosts Northern Illinois looking to break its three-game home losing streak.

The Ramblers are 1-2 in home games. Loyola Chicago is 1-1 in one-possession games.

The Huskies are 0-3 on the road. Northern Illinois is eighth in the MAC scoring 81.4 points per game and is shooting 48.3%.

Loyola Chicago is shooting 40.6% from the field this season, 7.0 percentage points lower than the 47.6% Northern Illinois allows to opponents. Northern Illinois averages 81.4 points per game, 1.4 more than the 80.0 Loyola Chicago gives up.

TOP PERFORMERS: Deywilk Tavarez averages 2.4 made 3-pointers per game for the Ramblers, scoring 11.2 points while shooting 33.3% from beyond the arc. Justin Moore is shooting 36.0% and averaging 13.2 points.

Daemar Kelly is scoring 11.2 points per game and averaging 3.0 rebounds for the Huskies. Jao Ituka is averaging 11.0 points and 3.2 rebounds.

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