{"id":134738,"date":"2026-01-28T10:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/134738\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T10:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:22:11","slug":"lockett-and-jacksonville-host-lipscomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/134738\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockett and Jacksonville host Lipscomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/lipscomb-bisons-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lipscomb Bisons<\/a> (14-7, 7-1 ASUN) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/jacksonville-dolphins-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacksonville Dolphins<\/a> (8-13, 3-5 ASUN)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Jacksonville, Florida; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Jacksonville faces Lipscomb after Chris Lockett Jr. scored 25 points in Jacksonville&#8217;s 81-76 overtime victory against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/eastern-kentucky-colonels-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eastern Kentucky Colonels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Dolphins are 5-2 in home games. Jacksonville is 5-5 when it has fewer turnovers than its opponents and averages 11.7 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Bisons are 7-1 in conference matchups. Lipscomb has a 4-5 record against teams over .500.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Jacksonville scores 73.3 points per game, 1.8 fewer points than the 75.1 Lipscomb allows. Lipscomb scores 8.7 more points per game (81.7) than Jacksonville allows to opponents (73.0).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Dolphins and Bisons match up Thursday for the first time in conference play this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/hayden-wood-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hayden Wood<\/a> is shooting 46.1% and averaging 9.9 points for the Dolphins. Lockett is averaging 10.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/mateo-esmeraldo-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mateo Esmeraldo<\/a> is averaging 9.8 points and 6.9 assists for the Bisons. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/grant-asman-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grant Asman<\/a> is averaging 14.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Dolphins: 3-7, averaging 68.0 points, 29.0 rebounds, 10.9 assists, 6.7 steals and 3.0 blocks per game while shooting 44.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 70.9 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Bisons: 8-2, averaging 83.8 points, 33.9 rebounds, 18.5 assists, 6.0 steals and 2.7 blocks per game while shooting 47.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 74.2 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lipscomb Bisons (14-7, 7-1 ASUN) at Jacksonville Dolphins (8-13, 3-5 ASUN) Jacksonville, Florida; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST BOTTOM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-134738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134738","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=134738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}