{"id":130293,"date":"2026-01-24T11:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/130293\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T11:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:34:06","slug":"pinion-and-south-florida-host-florida-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/130293\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinion and South Florida host Florida Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Florida Atlantic Owls (14-6, 6-1 AAC) at South Florida Bulls (12-7, 4-2 AAC)<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Tampa, Florida; Sunday, 1 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">BOTTOM LINE: South Florida takes on Florida Atlantic after Joseph Pinion scored 23 points in South Florida&#8217;s 82-69 win over the UAB Blazers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Bulls are 7-2 in home games. South Florida leads the AAC averaging 89.8 points and is shooting 43.9%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Owls are 6-1 against conference opponents. Florida Atlantic averages 83.1 points and has outscored opponents by 10.1 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">South Florida is shooting 43.9% from the field this season, 1.4 percentage points higher than the 42.5% Florida Atlantic allows to opponents. Florida Atlantic averages 83.1 points per game, 4.0 more than the 79.1 South Florida allows to opponents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Bulls and Owls square off Sunday for the first time in conference play this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">TOP PERFORMERS: Izaiyah Nelson is averaging 15.7 points, 9.9 rebounds, 1.6 steals and 1.6 blocks for the Bulls. Pinion is averaging 15.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Kanaan Carlyle is shooting 31.9% from beyond the arc with 2.1 made 3-pointers per game for the Owls, while averaging 14.6 points and 3.2 assists. Isaiah Elohim is averaging 13.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">LAST 10 GAMES: Bulls: 7-3, averaging 90.1 points, 40.2 rebounds, 18.3 assists, 9.1 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 43.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 78.1 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Owls: 7-3, averaging 84.4 points, 36.0 rebounds, 15.5 assists, 6.6 steals and 5.6 blocks per game while shooting 48.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 75.4 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Atlantic Owls (14-6, 6-1 AAC) at South Florida Bulls (12-7, 4-2 AAC) Tampa, Florida; Sunday, 1 p.m.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64243,1111,8294,111,28,30,29,2537,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-130293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-64243","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-college-sports","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-florida-headlines","14":"tag-florida-news","15":"tag-mens-college-basketball","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}