Arizona State Sun Devils (10-7, 1-3 Big 12) at Houston Cougars (16-1, 4-0 Big 12)<\/p>\n
Houston; Sunday, 6:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Arizona State visits No. 7 Houston after Moe Odum scored 23 points in Arizona State’s 89-82 loss to the Arizona Wildcats.<\/p>\n
The Cougars have gone 9-0 at home. Houston leads college basketball allowing just 59.3 points per game while holding opponents to 39.1% shooting.<\/p>\n
The Sun Devils have gone 1-3 against Big 12 opponents. Arizona State averages 80.8 points and has outscored opponents by 1.4 points per game.<\/p>\n
Houston is shooting 44.2% from the field this season, 1.1 percentage points lower than the 45.3% Arizona State allows to opponents. Arizona State has shot at a 45.9% clip from the field this season, 6.8 percentage points greater than the 39.1% shooting opponents of Houston have averaged.<\/p>\n
The Cougars and Sun Devils meet Sunday for the first time in conference play this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Emanuel Sharp is shooting 43.1% and averaging 15.9 points for the Cougars. Kingston Flemings is averaging 14.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Santiago Trouet is averaging 7.6 points and 5.8 rebounds for the Sun Devils. Massamba Diop is averaging 16.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Cougars: 10-0, averaging 78.0 points, 32.8 rebounds, 15.2 assists, 8.6 steals and 3.0 blocks per game while shooting 44.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 59.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
Sun Devils: 4-6, averaging 80.2 points, 29.9 rebounds, 15.4 assists, 7.0 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 45.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 82.5 points.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arizona State Sun Devils (10-7, 1-3 Big 12) at Houston Cougars (16-1, 4-0 Big 12) Houston; Sunday, 6:30…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[232493,347,1369,2076,4345,1385,62,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-522654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-232493","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\/115910219484009253","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522654","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=522654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522654\/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=522654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}