HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Kingston Flemings had 19 points and nine assists, Emanuel Sharp scored 19 points and top-ranked Houston routed Oakland 78-45 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Flemings was 8 of 12 from the floor, and Sharp shot 7 of 13, including 5 of 9 on 3-pointers, for Houston (3-0). The Cougars shot 45% and were 9 of 31 on 3-pointers.<\/p>\n
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Flemings and Sharp each had 11 points in the first half and shot a combined 8 of 16 from the field as the Cougars led 39-17 at the half.<\/p>\n
Houston’s Chris Cenac Jr. finished with 11 points. The Cougars outrebounded the Grizzlies 46-32 and held a 40-20 advantage in points in the paint.<\/p>\n
Isaac Garrett had 20 points and seven rebounds, and Nassim Mashhour added nine points for Oakland (0-3). The Grizzlies shot 31%.<\/p>\n
Oakland started the season with losses to then-No. 7 Michigan ( 121-78<\/a> ) on Nov. 3 and then-No. 1 Purdue ( 87-77<\/a> ) on Friday before facing the Cougars.<\/p>\n Houston jumped to an 8-0 lead on a 3-pointer by Sharp just over a minute into the game, and the Cougars extended the lead to 21-8 on another 3-pointer by Sharp with 12 minutes left in the first half.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Up next<\/p>\n Oakland: The Grizzlies hosts Defiance College on Saturday.<\/p>\n Houston: The Cougars face No. 22 Auburn in Birmingham, Ala., on Sunday.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here<\/a> and here<\/a> (AP News mobile app). AP college basketball: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll<\/a> and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Kingston Flemings had 19 points and nine assists, Emanuel Sharp scored 19 points and top-ranked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[32615,32614,6666,26100,32002,795,32616,143,145,144,32003,13246],"class_list":{"0":"post-50761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-chris-cenac-jr","9":"tag-emanuel-sharp","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-isaac-garrett","12":"tag-kingston-flemings","13":"tag-michigan","14":"tag-nassim-mashhour","15":"tag-oakland","16":"tag-oakland-headlines","17":"tag-oakland-news","18":"tag-the-cougars","19":"tag-the-grizzlies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}