Rams Look to Turn the Tide Wednesday Against Explorers

THE BASICS
La Salle (11-9, 2-5 A-10) at Rhode Island (9-11, 3-4 A-10)
Tip-Off: Wednesday, Jan. 31, 7:02 p.m. EST
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RHODE ISLAND VS. LA SALLE - SERIES NOTES

Wednesday's game will be the 46th all time between Rhode Island and La Salle.
Rhode Island leads the series, 34-11.
The Rams have won nine of the previous 11 match-ups.
Last season, the teams played three times. La Salle won 77-75 in overtime at Gola Arena on Jan. 7, 2023, and Rhode Island won 72-70 in the Ryan Center three weeks later on Jan. 28. The Explorers took the rubber game with a 73-56 win at the Atlantic 10 Championship at Barclays Center.
Rhode Island is 14-4 when hosting La Salle and has won each of the last four times the Explorers have come to Kingston.
The last time La Salle won in the Ryan Center was Jan. 12, 2017, an 87-75 win.
La Salle is one of the best teams in the country at protecting the basketball. The Explorers average 9.7 turnovers per game, which ranks 19th in the country.
La Salle snapped a four-game losing streak by winning 80-70 at George Washington on Jan. 27.
Rhode Island enters the game looking to snap a four-game skid of its own.

RAMS FINDING MARK FROM THE PERIMETER

One of the biggest areas of improvement in recent weeks for Rhode Island has been its perimeter shooting.
The Rams have made an average of 8.7 3-pointers per game over the last six games.
That includes 14 3-pointers in a win over Massachusetts (Jan. 13) and 13 more in a loss at George Mason (Jan. 17) in the team's most recent games.
The 14 makes against UMass tied the fourth-most in a single game in program history.
In the Atlantic 10 opener against Saint Joseph's, Rhode Island was 6-for-25 from the arc, lowering the team's season 3-point percentage to .335.
In the six games since, URI has shot .426 as a team from the arc (52-for-122).
That has brought the team's season 3-point percentage to .365, which ranks fifth in the conference and 60th in the country.
Junior forward David Green is shooting .556 from 3-point range (15-for-27) while freshman guard Cam Estevez is making .439 (29-for-66) from deep.
The .365 3-point shooting percentage would tie for the eighth best in URI history if the season ended today.
Estevez currently ranks ninth for a single season among URI players with at least 50 attempts in a year.

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