Evansville Purple Aces (7-1, 1-1 MVC) at BYU Cougars (7-0)
Provo, Utah; Tuesday, 9 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: No. 19 BYU takes on the Evansville Purple Aces after Jaxson Robinson scored 24 points in BYU's 85-56 victory against the Fresno State Bulldogs.
The Cougars are 4-0 on their home court. BYU is third in the Big 12 in team defense, allowing 59.6 points while holding opponents to 39.8% shooting.
The Purple Aces are 2-1 on the road. Evansville is eighth in college basketball scoring 43.8 points per game in the paint led by Yacine Toumi averaging 6.5.
BYU makes 48.9% of its shots from the field this season, which is 8.2 percentage points higher than Evansville has allowed to its opponents (40.7%). Evansville averages 26.0 more points per game (85.6) than BYU gives up (59.6).
TOP PERFORMERS: Robinson is shooting 43.8% from beyond the arc with 3.0 made 3-pointers per game for the Cougars, while averaging 16.6 points. Spencer Johnson is shooting 47.1% and averaging 12.4 points for BYU.
Ben Humrichous is averaging 18.6 points and 1.8 blocks for the Purple Aces. Chuck Bailey III is averaging 10.4 points for Evansville.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
