{"id":182044,"date":"2026-03-07T13:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T13:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182044\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T13:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T13:28:09","slug":"jacksonville-state-visits-utep-after-wests-28-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182044\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville State visits UTEP after West’s 28-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jacksonville State Gamecocks<\/a> (14-16, 9-10 CUSA) at UTEP Miners<\/a> (11-19, 7-12 CUSA)<\/p>\n

El Paso, Texas; Saturday, 3 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Gamecocks -1.5; over\/under is 139.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: UTEP hosts Jacksonville State after Jamal West<\/a> scored 28 points in UTEP’s 78-71 win against the Kennesaw State Owls<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Miners have gone 9-6 in home games. UTEP is fifth in the CUSA at limiting opponent scoring, allowing 72.7 points while holding opponents to 44.7% shooting.<\/p>\n

The Gamecocks are 9-10 in conference play. Jacksonville State is 4-7 when it turns the ball over less than its opponents and averages 10.4 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n

UTEP averages 69.6 points per game, 1.0 more point than the 68.6 Jacksonville State allows. Jacksonville State averages 7.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.9 more makes per game than UTEP allows.<\/p>\n

The teams play for the second time in conference play this season. UTEP won the last matchup 69-64 on Feb. 12. Elijah Jones<\/a> scored 16 points points to help lead the Miners to the win.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: West is scoring 14.3 points per game and averaging 6.5 rebounds for the Miners. Kaseem Watson<\/a> is averaging 14.5 points and 6.6 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Mostapha El Moutaouakkil<\/a> is averaging 19.3 points and 7.1 rebounds for the Gamecocks. Jacoby Hill<\/a> is averaging 12.5 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Miners: 4-6, averaging 69.2 points, 30.7 rebounds, 10.2 assists, 7.1 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 40.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 73.1 points per game.<\/p>\n

Gamecocks: 3-7, averaging 73.1 points, 32.5 rebounds, 11.3 assists, 5.6 steals and 2.7 blocks per game while shooting 42.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 73.3 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 (14-16, 9-10 CUSA) at UTEP Miners (11-19, 7-12 CUSA) El Paso, Texas; Saturday, 3 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8294,85920,70652,116,118,117,4642,82332,85918,85919,70650,5925],"class_list":{"0":"post-182044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-college-basketball","9":"tag-elijah-jones","10":"tag-event_preview","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","13":"tag-jacksonville-news","14":"tag-jacksonville-state-gamecocks","15":"tag-jacoby-hill","16":"tag-jamal-west-jr","17":"tag-kaseem-watson","18":"tag-mostapha-el-moutaouakkil","19":"tag-utep-miners"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182044","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=182044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182044\/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=182044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}