{"id":489408,"date":"2026-01-03T12:28:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T12:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/489408\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T12:28:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T12:28:21","slug":"baugus-leads-middle-tennessee-against-jacksonville-state-after-25-point-showing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/489408\/","title":{"rendered":"Baugus leads Middle Tennessee against Jacksonville State after 25-point showing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/middle-tennessee-blue-raiders-team\" class=\"entity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders<\/a> (6-7, 1-0 CUSA) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/jacksonville-state-gamecocks-team\" class=\"entity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jacksonville State Gamecocks<\/a> (6-6, 1-0 CUSA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Jacksonville, Alabama; Sunday, 3:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Middle Tennessee plays Jacksonville State after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/blair-baugus-player\" class=\"entity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blair Baugus<\/a> scored 25 points in Middle Tennessee&#8217;s 60-47 win against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/kennesaw-state-owls-team\" class=\"entity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kennesaw State Owls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Gamecocks have gone 4-1 at home. Jacksonville State has a 1-0 record in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Blue Raiders are 1-0 against conference opponents. Middle Tennessee is 1-0 in one-possession games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Jacksonville State scores 65.0 points per game, 3.7 more points than the 61.3 Middle Tennessee allows. Middle Tennessee averages 56.1 points per game, 2.5 fewer than the 58.6 Jacksonville State allows to opponents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Gamecocks and Blue Raiders meet Sunday for the first time in conference play this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/mya-barnes-player\" class=\"entity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mya Barnes<\/a> is shooting 41.4% and averaging 11.6 points for the Gamecocks. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/adriana-jones-player\" class=\"entity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adriana Jones<\/a> is averaging 10.5 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/womens-college-basketball\/savannah-davis-player\" class=\"entity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Savannah Davis<\/a> is shooting 26.2% from beyond the arc with 1.7 made 3-pointers per game for the Blue Raiders, while averaging 8.8 points. Baugus is averaging 14.7 points, 8.6 rebounds and 2.4 steals over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Gamecocks: 5-5, averaging 63.4 points, 35.3 rebounds, 10.7 assists, 5.8 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 38.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 60.2 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Blue Raiders: 4-6, averaging 54.3 points, 28.7 rebounds, 8.9 assists, 6.8 steals and 1.7 blocks per game while shooting 37.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 62.6 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">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 (6-7, 1-0 CUSA) at Jacksonville State Gamecocks (6-6, 1-0 CUSA) Jacksonville, Alabama; Sunday, 3:30&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-489408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115831170985804306","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489408","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=489408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489408\/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=489408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}