{"id":143187,"date":"2026-02-04T10:25:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/143187\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T10:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:25:16","slug":"western-kentucky-faces-jacksonville-state-in-conference-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/143187\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Kentucky faces Jacksonville State in conference matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jacksonville State Gamecocks<\/a> (11-10, 6-4 CUSA) at Western Kentucky Hilltoppers<\/a> (12-10, 5-6 CUSA)<\/p>\n

Bowling Green, Kentucky; Thursday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Mostapha El Moutaouakkil<\/a> and Jacksonville State take on Teagan Moore<\/a> and Western Kentucky in CUSA action.<\/p>\n

The Hilltoppers have gone 8-3 at home. Western Kentucky is 1-2 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n

The Gamecocks are 6-4 against CUSA opponents. Jacksonville State is eighth in the CUSA with 9.5 offensive rebounds per game led by Jacoby Hill<\/a> averaging 1.8.<\/p>\n

Western Kentucky averages 8.3 made 3-pointers per game, 1.2 more made shots than the 7.1 per game Jacksonville State allows. Jacksonville State averages 7.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.1 fewer made shots on average than the 9.0 per game Western Kentucky gives up.<\/p>\n

The Hilltoppers and Gamecocks match up Thursday for the first time in conference play this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Moore is averaging 17.2 points and 5.9 rebounds for the Hilltoppers. Ryan Myers<\/a> is averaging 11.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jaye Nash<\/a> is averaging 4.3 points and four assists for the Gamecocks. El Moutaouakkil is averaging 18.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Hilltoppers: 5-5, averaging 71.3 points, 35.7 rebounds, 12.0 assists, 6.6 steals and 3.0 blocks per game while shooting 37.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 72.2 points per game.<\/p>\n

Gamecocks: 6-4, averaging 71.3 points, 29.4 rebounds, 11.2 assists, 6.4 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 45.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 70.4 points.<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville State Gamecocks (11-10, 6-4 CUSA) at Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (12-10, 5-6 CUSA) Bowling Green, Kentucky; Thursday, 9…\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":{"0":"post-143187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-jacksonville","9":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","10":"tag-jacksonville-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143187","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=143187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143187\/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=143187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}