Bellarmine @ @ North Florida

Who will WIN this matchup?

Bellarmine Knights (3-18)

@ North Florida Lady Ospreys (10-12)

Current odds:

Bellarmine Knights: (+1500)

North Florida Lady Ospreys: (-4000)

• The line for this game is North Florida by 16.5 points.

• The all-time series between Bellarmine and North Florida began last season in Louisville as the Knights hosted the Ospreys on consecutive days in Freedom Hall. UNF swept the two contests by scores of 76-73 and 77-49. The Knights held a lead in the fourth quarter in the first contest, but the Ospreys ran away with the latter.

• North Florida is 7-3 at home this season, with conference wins over Kennesaw State (66-49) and Lipscomb (83-75 overtime). The Ospreys’ other ASUN victory was a 78-64 road triumph over Eastern Kentucky.

• In Jazz Bond, North Florida boasts the conference’s reigning ASUN Defensive Player of the Year and its Preseason Defensive Player of the Year. The 6-foot-4 senior forward is also the reigning ASUN Player of the Week — the seventh such honor of her career — after averaging 16.5 points, 11.0 rebounds and 3.5 blocks in games against Jacksonville State and North Alabama.

• Bond, a first-team ASUN All-Conference selection last season, ranks second in the conference in scoring (16.2) and blocked shots (2.7) and is third in rebounding (8.2). Fellow senior Rhetta Moore provides UNF another top-10 scoring threat in the league, ranking seventh at 13.5 points per game. Moore and Bond have combined to sink 86 3-pointers.

• North Florida dropped both its games last week, falling 66-58 at Jacksonville State and 70-65 at North Alabama. In the latter, the game was knotted at 52, but the Lions followed with a game-clinching 11-2 run. The Ospreys had a considerable rebounding advantage at 47-37, but North Alabama minimized the damage by committing only four turnovers and hitting 11 3-pointers to the five treys of North Florida.

• Bellarmine is coming off a 72-65 home loss Saturday to Kennesaw State. The Knights’ two highest-scoring performances in conference play have come over the last three games.

• Junior guard Jaela Johnson scored a game-high 19 points against Kennesaw State and has scored in double figures in three straight games and 11 times overall this season. Her three 3-pointers against the Owls are her most in ASUN action.

• Sophomore guard Mackenzie Keelin is coming off the best two-game rebounding stretch of the season and her career. The sophomore guard pulled down a career-high 11 rebounds against Liberty and grabbed seven more against Kennesaw State, tying her second-biggest output of the year. She’s also averaged 12 points and hit six 3-pointers over the last two games.

• Senior guard Kathleen Scott remains the ASUN’s leading free-throw shooter at 86 percent. Sophomore forward Lucy Robertson tallied six or more rebounds in three of the last four games.