LVIV (Interstat) — Kyiv will visit Goverla on Sunday at Sports Palace Galychyna in Lviv, Ukraine, for a basketball game matching a visiting team with a 6-1 season record against a home team still seeking its first victory. Kyiv enters at 6-1, while Goverla is 0-4. Goverla will be the home team, and Kyiv will be the visitor.

Kyiv’s Nazar Kholod is a player to watch. In his most recent outing, Kholod finished with 17 points, five rebounds and one assist in a win at Khmelnitsky. He also had six points, 11 rebounds and two assists against Niko-Basket Mykolaiv, and two points, one rebound, two assists and one block against Cherkaski Mavpy. Kyiv’s most recent win also included production from Javion May, who had seven points, eight rebounds, four assists and one block, and Marian Rudy, who added six points, seven rebounds, one assist and one block. He had one point and two rebounds at BC Dnipro, three points and three rebounds at BK Zaporozhye, four points and five rebounds at Rivne and five points and four rebounds at Volyn Lutsk. Kyiv’s most recent result was a 72-51 win at Khmelnitsky. Kyiv’s other recent results this season include a 100-70 home win over Mykolaiv, a 93-61 home win over Cherkaski Mavpy, a 45-37 win at BC Dnipro, a 92-62 loss at BK Zaporozhye, a 79-70 win at Rivne-Oshvsm and an 89-82 win at Volyn Lutsk.

Raylon Howard is a player to watch for Goverla. In Goverla’s most recent game, an overtime loss to Kharkivski Sokoly, Howard had 20 points, nine rebounds, one assist and one block. He also scored 11 points with six rebounds and two assists against Khmelnitsky, 15 points with two rebounds, five assists and one block against BC Dnipro, and 17 points with three rebounds, two assists and two blocks against BK Zaporozhye. Sergey Startsev added 20 points, six rebounds and three assists in the most recent Goverla result, while Pavlo Horobchenko had 15 points, one rebound and three assists. Goverla’s most recent result was a 73-69 overtime loss to Kharkivski Sokoly at home.

Kyiv will be the visiting team and Goverla the home team at Sports Palace Galychyna. Goverla also has dropped an overtime game to Khmelnitsky 81-79 and fallen to BC Dnipro 84-70 and BK Zaporozhye 95-70.

Interstat’s game simulator projects a final score of Kyiv 86, Goverla 82. Interstat’s ELO system gives Kyiv an 84 percent probability to win. Kyiv has been installed as the pregame favorite with a spread of -7.5, and the over/under for the game is 159.5.