Northwestern Wildcats face the Butler Bulldogs
Butler Bulldogs (4-1) vs. Northwestern Wildcats (5-1)
Tempe, Arizona; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Wildcats -1.5; over/under is 134.5
BOTTOM LINE: Butler and Northwestern meet at Mullett Arena in Tempe, Arizona.
The Wildcats have a 5-1 record in non-conference games. Northwestern averages 9.7 turnovers per game and is 5-0 when it turns the ball over less than its opponents.
The Bulldogs are 4-1 in non-conference play. Butler ranks eighth in the Big East with 14.8 assists per game led by Finley Bizjack averaging 4.5.
Northwestern makes 46.4% of its shots from the field this season, which is 9.8 percentage points higher than Butler has allowed to its opponents (36.6%). Butler scores 15.1 more points per game (76.4) than Northwestern allows to opponents (61.3).
TOP PERFORMERS: Nick Martinelli is scoring 23.8 points per game and averaging 6.8 rebounds for the Wildcats.
Pierre Brooks is averaging 16.6 points and 5.4 rebounds for the Bulldogs.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.