Carruthers leads Toledo against Northern Iowa after 27-point outing

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Northern Iowa Panthers (3-4, 1-0 MVC) at Toledo Rockets (3-3)

Toledo, Ohio; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: Toledo plays Northern Iowa after Kendall Carruthers scored 27 points in Toledo's 79-66 win over the Morgan State Lady Bears.

The Rockets have gone 2-1 in home games. Toledo is sixth in the MAC with 12.7 assists per game led by Patricia Anumgba averaging 2.2.

The Panthers are 1-2 on the road. Northern Iowa is the MVC leader with 28.6 defensive rebounds per game led by Elise Jaeger averaging 11.1.

Toledo makes 41.8% of its shots from the field this season, which is 6.5 percentage points higher than Northern Iowa has allowed to its opponents (35.3%). Northern Iowa averages 57.4 points per game, 11.4 fewer points than the 68.8 Toledo gives up.

TOP PERFORMERS: Carruthers is scoring 14.0 points per game and averaging 2.8 rebounds for the Rockets. Faith Fedd-Robinson is averaging 12.8 points and 5.7 rebounds while shooting 47.6%.

Jenna Twedt is scoring 10.7 points per game and averaging 1.9 rebounds for the Panthers. Taryn Wharton is averaging 10.4 points.

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