{"id":146019,"date":"2026-02-06T13:12:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/146019\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T13:12:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:12:29","slug":"jacksonville-state-hosts-kennesaw-state-after-johnsons-20-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/146019\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville State hosts Kennesaw State after Johnson’s 20-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kennesaw State Owls<\/a> (14-8, 6-5 CUSA) at Jacksonville State Gamecocks<\/a> (12-10, 7-4 CUSA)<\/p>\n

Jacksonville, Alabama; Saturday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Kennesaw State visits Jacksonville State after RJ Johnson<\/a> scored 20 points in Kennesaw State’s 76-53 victory over the New Mexico State Aggies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Gamecocks are 8-4 in home games. Jacksonville State has a 5-3 record in games decided by 10 points or more.<\/p>\n

The Owls are 6-5 against CUSA opponents. Kennesaw State scores 86.5 points and has outscored opponents by 10.5 points per game.<\/p>\n

Jacksonville State scores 73.0 points per game, 3.0 fewer points than the 76.0 Kennesaw State gives up. Kennesaw State has shot at a 45.1% rate from the field this season, 5.4 percentage points higher than the 39.7% shooting opponents of Jacksonville State have averaged.<\/p>\n

The matchup Saturday is the first meeting this season for the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Mostapha El Moutaouakkil<\/a> is averaging 18.1 points and 7.4 rebounds for the Gamecocks. Anthony Bryant is averaging 11.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Simeon Cottle<\/a> is averaging 20.2 points, 3.7 assists and 1.5 steals for the Owls. Johnson is averaging 14.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Gamecocks: 6-4, averaging 70.6 points, 30.4 rebounds, 10.7 assists, 6.3 steals and 3.1 blocks per game while shooting 44.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 70.3 points per game.<\/p>\n

Owls: 6-4, averaging 78.4 points, 36.1 rebounds, 14.7 assists, 6.3 steals and 6.7 blocks per game while shooting 41.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 75.8 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":"Kennesaw State Owls (14-8, 6-5 CUSA) at Jacksonville State Gamecocks (12-10, 7-4 CUSA) Jacksonville, Alabama; Saturday, 8 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8294,70652,116,118,117,4642,4698,70650,70649,70651],"class_list":["post-146019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-college-basketball","tag-event_preview","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-state-gamecocks","tag-kennesaw-state-owls","tag-mostapha-el-moutaouakkil","tag-rj-johnson","tag-simeon-cottle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146019","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=146019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146019\/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=146019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}