Houston Cougars (12-1) at Cincinnati Bearcats (8-5)<\/p>\n
Cincinnati; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Cougars -7.5; over\/under is 135.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Kingston Flemings and No. 8 Houston visit Baba and Cincinnati in Big 12 action Saturday.<\/p>\n The Bearcats are 8-1 on their home court. Cincinnati is fifth in the Big 12 with 17.5 assists per game led by Kerr Kriisa averaging 4.1.<\/p>\n The Cougars play their first true road game after going 12-1 with a 5-1 record in neutral-site games to start the season. Houston is the leader in the Big 12 allowing just 60.0 points per game while holding opponents to 38.9% shooting.<\/p>\n Cincinnati averages 9.3 made 3-pointers per game, 3.0 more made shots than the 6.3 per game Houston allows. Houston averages 9.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.7 more made shots on average than the 7.5 per game Cincinnati allows.<\/p>\n The matchup Saturday is the first meeting this season between the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Miller is scoring 13.6 points per game with 11.5 rebounds and 2.6 assists for the Bearcats. Day Day Thomas is averaging 12.7 points and 3.6 rebounds while shooting 41.1% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Flemings is averaging 15.3 points, 4.9 assists and 2.1 steals for the Cougars. Emanuel Sharp is averaging 16.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Bearcats: 5-5, averaging 74.3 points, 37.8 rebounds, 17.7 assists, 6.7 steals and 5.3 blocks per game while shooting 41.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 66.2 points per game.<\/p>\n Cougars: 9-1, averaging 80.5 points, 32.9 rebounds, 16.8 assists, 8.8 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 45.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 63.0 points.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Cougars (12-1) at Cincinnati Bearcats (8-5) Cincinnati; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Cougars -7.5; over\/under…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[220822,347,1369,2076,4345,1385,62,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-489553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-220822","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-college-sports","11":"tag-college-basketball","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-mens-college-basketball","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115831521160621861","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489553","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=489553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}