{"id":369024,"date":"2025-11-10T11:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/369024\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T11:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:06:12","slug":"rice-visits-houston-following-merchants-21-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/369024\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice visits Houston following Merchant&#8217;s 21-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">Rice Owls (0-1) at Houston Cougars (2-0)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">Houston; Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Houston plays Rice after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/kierra-merchant-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kierra Merchant<\/a> scored 21 points in Houston&#8217;s 52-48 victory over the UTSA Roadrunners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">Houston went 5-25 overall last season while going 5-10 at home. The Cougars averaged 58.6 points per game last season, 11.3 on free throws and 18 from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">Rice finished 17-17 overall last season while going 2-10 on the road. The Owls averaged 65.9 points per game while shooting 40.6% from the field and 30.4% from 3-point distance last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n<p>\n        What did you think of this story?\n      <\/p>\n<p>\n        recommended\n      <\/p>\n<p> Arrow pointing to the leftArrow pointing to the right <\/p>\n<p>Item 1 of 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Rice Owls (0-1) at Houston Cougars (2-0) Houston; Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Houston plays&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4345,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-369024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115525083695590926","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}