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Monday, December 03, 2007
Home sweet home games
Three league teams in action tonight, all on their home floors. Navy looks to win its second in a row when it hosts Mount Saint Mary's tonight. Lafayette looks for its third straight win against NJIT and Bucknell tries to end a three-game losing streak when LaSalle visits Sojka Pavilion.


SCOUTING LaSALLE: The Explorers come in 3-2, riding a two-game win streak. They have been in every game they have played. In fact, they have had at least an 8-point lead at some point in all five games and have led all five at the half. The Explorers have outscored the opposition 170-137 in first halves, but have been outscored 185-152 after the intermission.

Senior Darnell Harris (6-1) leads LaSalle in scoring with 13.8 ppg. A career-1,000-point scorer, Harris is a three-point shooter, hitting better (41.3 percent) from the arc than he is overall (34.9 percent). Soph Rodney Green(6-5) is just behind at 13.4 ppg. An Atlantic-10 All-Rookie pick last season, Green is shooting 42.9 percent from three-point range.

Inside, LaSalle is getting a strong contribution from the 6-8 Williams twins, Jerrell and Terrell, who are combining for 12 points and 9.2 rebounds per game in 35 shared minutes per contest.

Sophomore Ruben Guillandeaux led the team in assists last season. Guillandeaux has missed the Explorer's first five games and is listed as questionable for this one.

With Guillandeaux out, LaSalle has been turning the ball over more than 18 times per game. The Explorers shoot 40.9 percent from the field, holding opponents to 39.4 percent. LaDalle has outrebounded its foes by better than 6 per game.
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    SCOUTING MOUNT ST. MARY'S: The Mounts picked up their first win Saturday, handling Loyola (Md.) with relative ease, 70-58. Among their four losses to open the season was one at American.

    Chris Vann leads all Mount scorers with his 17 ppg average. Jeremy Goode has been the leading scorer the last three games and stands just behind Vann at 16.3 ppg. Will Holland also averages in double figures (10.6 ppg.)
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    SCOUTING NJIT: Last time we checked in on the Highlanders, they were dropping Thanksgiving weekend games to American and Lehigh. Since then, 0-8 NJIT has lost two more.

    The Highlanders are being outscored by an average of 26.5 points per game, outrebounded by almost 8 per game and average 21 turnovers. Opponents are shooting 50.1 percent against NJIT and holding the Highlanders to 36.2 percent from the field.

    Junior Nesho Milosevic, a 6-8 forward from Montenegro, is the only Highlander averaging in double figures at 11.5 ppg. Kraig Peters, a 6-4 senior, is scoring 9.9 ppg.
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