Northwestern Wildcats (6-4, 0-1 Big Ten) vs. Charleston (SC) Cougars (8-1)

Philadelphia; Friday, 1 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: Northwestern and Charleston (SC) square off in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Cougars are 8-1 in non-conference play. Charleston (SC) averages 14.0 turnovers per game and is 8-1 when it turns the ball over less than its opponents.

The Wildcats are 6-3 in non-conference play. Northwestern is 2-2 in games decided by at least 10 points.

Charleston (SC) makes 42.0% of its shots from the field this season, which is 4.3 percentage points higher than Northwestern has allowed to its opponents (37.7%). Northwestern has shot at a 43.4% rate from the field this season, 7.7 percentage points higher than the 35.7% shooting opponents of Charleston (SC) have averaged.

TOP PERFORMERS: Taryn Barbot averages 2.4 made 3-pointers per game for the Cougars, scoring 16.3 points while shooting 35.5% from beyond the arc.

Grace Sullivan is scoring 11.8 points per game and averaging 4.8 rebounds for the Wildcats.

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