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The Eastern Illinois Panthers (1-2) visit Normal, Illinois and the CEFCU Arena on Wednesday to play against in-state rival the Illinois State Redbirds (1-1). Eastern Illinois is coming off an 89-65 loss to the Loyola-Chicago Ramblers on Saturday. The Panthers have lost two of the first three to open the season. Illinois State was defeated by Saint Louis 80-71 on Saturday after opening the season with a victory. Eastern Illinois and Illinois State do not have any players listed on their injury reports.
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Eastern Illinois is making it too easy for its opponents as the Panthers are allowing a field goal shooting percentage of 49.1% and 34.6% which are 330th and 250th respectively. That has resulted in Eastern Illinois allowing an average of 71.3 points per game which is 208th. Eastern Illinois is averaging 41.0 rebounds per game led by Kooper Jacobi with an average of 9.0 boards per contest. Tiger Booker is the leader in steals with an average of 3.0 per game and Kyndall Davis is the swat leader with an average of 0.7 blocked shots per game.
The Eastern Illinois offense cannot keep pace with what the defense is giving up as the Panthers are scoring an average 69.3 points per game which is 279th in the nation. Eastern Illinois has a field goal shooting percentage of 37.8% which is only 329th, but improves from downtown, hit ting 37.3% of its 3-point attempts which is 98th in the nation. Kooper Jacobi is scoring an average of 11.7 points per game to lead Eastern Illinois but is shooting just 41.7%, while second leading scorer Tiger Booker is averaging 10.3 points per game and shoots even worse at 29.4%. Booker is the dish leader with an average of 2.3 assists per game. Eastern Illinois is averaging 12.0 assists and 9.3 turnovers per game.
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