Cheeks and Dayton host Lehigh

Lehigh Mountain Hawks (3-5) at Dayton Flyers (7-2)

Dayton, Ohio; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Flyers -21.5; over/under is 146.5

BOTTOM LINE: Dayton hosts Lehigh after Enoch Cheeks scored 23 points in Dayton's 77-69 win over the Western Michigan Broncos.

The Flyers have gone 6-0 at home. Dayton has a 0-1 record in games decided by less than 4 points.

The Mountain Hawks are 0-5 in road games. Lehigh is third in the Patriot League with 15.4 assists per game led by Ben Knostman averaging 2.6.

Dayton makes 49.3% of its shots from the field this season, which is 4.4 percentage points higher than Lehigh has allowed to its opponents (44.9%). Lehigh has shot at a 47.5% clip from the field this season, 4.4 percentage points higher than the 43.1% shooting opponents of Dayton have averaged.

TOP PERFORMERS: Cheeks averages 2.4 made 3-pointers per game for the Flyers, scoring 16.3 points while shooting 44.2% from beyond the arc.

Keith Higgins Jr. is averaging 17.3 points for the Mountain Hawks.

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

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