Sam Houston Bearkats (8-5, 0-2 CUSA) at Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders (8-5, 2-0 CUSA)<\/p>\n
Murfreesboro, Tennessee; Sunday, 2 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Blue Raiders -5.5; over\/under is 157.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Middle Tennessee hosts Sam Houston after Alec Oglesby scored 25 points in Middle Tennessee’s 88-51 win over the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs.<\/p>\n The Blue Raiders are 6-1 on their home court. Middle Tennessee scores 77.4 points while outscoring opponents by 7.8 points per game.<\/p>\n The Bearkats are 0-2 in CUSA play. Sam Houston is third in college basketball with 13.8 offensive rebounds per game led by Veljko Ilic averaging 3.6.<\/p>\n Middle Tennessee averages 10.2 made 3-pointers per game, 1.7 more made shots than the 8.5 per game Sam Houston allows. Sam Houston averages 9.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.9 more made shots on average than the 5.5 per game Middle Tennessee gives up.<\/p>\n The Blue Raiders and Bearkats meet Sunday for the first time in CUSA play this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Kamari Lands is scoring 12.8 points per game and averaging 4.5 rebounds for the Blue Raiders. Torey Alston is averaging 13.2 points and 8.9 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Po’Boigh King averages 2.2 made 3-pointers per game for the Bearkats, scoring 11.5 points while shooting 36.8% from beyond the arc. Isaiah Manning is averaging 13.9 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Blue Raiders: 5-5, averaging 72.0 points, 32.0 rebounds, 13.1 assists, 5.8 steals and 4.8 blocks per game while shooting 43.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 72.6 points per game.<\/p>\n Bearkats: 7-3, averaging 89.7 points, 40.4 rebounds, 16.4 assists, 7.8 steals and 2.6 blocks per game while shooting 47.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 75.7 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":"Sam Houston Bearkats (8-5, 0-2 CUSA) at Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders (8-5, 2-0 CUSA) Murfreesboro, Tennessee; Sunday, 2…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[221711,347,1339,1369,2076,4345,1385,62,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-492003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-221711","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-college-sports","12":"tag-college-basketball","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-mens-college-basketball","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492003","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=492003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492003\/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=492003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}