{"id":477535,"date":"2025-12-29T11:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T11:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/477535\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T11:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T11:50:11","slug":"no-8-houston-hosts-middle-tennessee-following-sharps-22-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/477535\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 8 Houston hosts Middle Tennessee following Sharp’s 22-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders<\/a> (7-4, 1-0 CUSA) at Houston Cougars<\/a> (11-1)<\/p>\n

Houston; Monday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Cougars -27.5; over\/under is 137.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: No. 8 Houston faces Middle Tennessee after Emanuel Sharp<\/a> scored 22 points in Houston’s 94-85 win against the Arkansas Razorbacks.<\/p>\n

The Cougars are 6-0 on their home court. Houston averages 79.5 points and has outscored opponents by 19.5 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Blue Raiders are 1-1 on the road. Middle Tennessee ranks seventh in the CUSA with 24.0 defensive rebounds per game led by Torey Alston<\/a> averaging 5.3.<\/p>\n

Houston averages 9.4 made 3-pointers per game, 3.8 more made shots than the 5.6 per game Middle Tennessee allows. Middle Tennessee averages 9.1 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.2 more made shots on average than the 5.9 per game Houston allows.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Sharp is averaging 17.6 points for the Cougars. Kingston Flemings<\/a> is averaging 15.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Alston is averaging 12.5 points, 8.3 rebounds and 1.5 blocks for the Blue Raiders. Jahvin Carter<\/a> is averaging 13.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cougars: 9-1, averaging 81.4 points, 34.3 rebounds, 18.0 assists, 8.9 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 46.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 61.5 points per game.<\/p>\n

Blue Raiders: 6-4, averaging 75.8 points, 33.9 rebounds, 13.4 assists, 6.5 steals and 5.0 blocks per game while shooting 43.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 73.4 points.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders (7-4, 1-0 CUSA) at Houston Cougars (11-1) Houston; Monday, 8 p.m. EST BETMGM SPORTSBOOK…\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-477535","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\/115802710570276701","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477535","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=477535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477535\/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=477535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}