Maryland-Eastern Shore visits Riley and East Carolina

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Maryland-Eastern Shore Hawks (4-6) at East Carolina Pirates (2-5)

Greenville, North Carolina; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: East Carolina hosts Maryland-Eastern Shore after Joran Riley scored 28 points in East Carolina's 67-58 loss to the Saint Bonaventure Bonnies.

The Pirates have gone 2-1 in home games. East Carolina is 2-0 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.

The Hawks are 1-5 on the road. Maryland-Eastern Shore ranks second in the MEAC with 32.6 rebounds per game led by Zion Obanla averaging 5.0.

East Carolina scores 67.7 points per game, 1.3 fewer points than the 69.0 Maryland-Eastern Shore gives up. Maryland-Eastern Shore's 43.5% shooting percentage from the field this season is 2.3 percentage points lower than East Carolina has given up to its opponents (45.8%).

TOP PERFORMERS: Tybo Bailey averages 1.3 made 3-pointers per game for the Pirates, scoring 9.9 points while shooting 26.5% from beyond the arc. Riley is shooting 45.8% and averaging 19.2 points.

Joseph Locandro is scoring 12.3 points per game and averaging 4.0 rebounds for the Hawks. Justin Monden is averaging 8.5 points.

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