Cornell hosts the Illinois State Redbirds after AK Okereke scored 24 points in Cornell's 88-80 win over the California Golden Bears
Illinois State Redbirds (7-4, 0-1 MVC) at Cornell Big Red (7-3)
Ithaca, New York; Sunday, 12 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Cornell hosts Illinois State after AK Okereke scored 24 points in Cornell's 88-80 victory against the California Golden Bears.
The Big Red are 3-1 in home games. Cornell is fourth in the Ivy League with 24.5 defensive rebounds per game led by Guy Ragland Jr. averaging 4.8.
The Redbirds are 1-1 on the road. Illinois State ranks third in the MVC shooting 40.7% from 3-point range.
Cornell makes 48.7% of its shots from the field this season, which is 5.4 percentage points higher than Illinois State has allowed to its opponents (43.3%). Illinois State averages 10.7 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.2 more made shots on average than the 7.5 per game Cornell gives up.
TOP PERFORMERS: Cooper Noard is scoring 13.8 points per game and averaging 3.0 rebounds for the Big Red.
Chase Walker is averaging 15.5 points and 6.6 rebounds for the Redbirds.
The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.