{"id":102825,"date":"2025-12-28T15:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T15:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/102825\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T15:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T15:50:13","slug":"texas-am-cc-hosts-nicholls-after-kenembenis-21-point-showing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/102825\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&#038;M-CC hosts Nicholls after Kenembeni&#8217;s 21-point showing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholls Colonels (5-4, 1-1 Southland) at Texas A&amp;M-CC Islanders (1-8, 0-2 Southland)<\/p>\n<p>Corpus Christi, Texas; Monday, 6 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: Nicholls faces Texas A&amp;M-CC after Marie Kenembeni scored 21 points in Nicholls\u2019 70-47 victory against the Houston Christian Huskies.<\/p>\n<p>The Islanders have gone 1-2 in home games. Texas A&amp;M-CC is 1-5 against opponents with a winning record.<\/p>\n<p>The Colonels have gone 1-1 against Southland opponents. Nicholls has a 2-3 record against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n<p>Texas A&amp;M-CC\u2019s average of 6.7 made 3-pointers per game is 1.4 fewer made shots on average than the 8.1 per game Nicholls gives up. Nicholls has shot at a 43.5% clip from the field this season, 1.8 percentage points higher than the 41.7% shooting opponents of Texas A&amp;M-CC have averaged.<\/p>\n<p>The matchup Monday is the first meeting of the season between the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Chelsea Wooten is shooting 24.1% from beyond the arc with 2.2 made 3-pointers per game for the Islanders, while averaging 9.1 points, 4.2 assists and 1.7 steals. Samora Watson is shooting 35.0% and averaging 12.4 points.<\/p>\n<p>Jesslynn Jalomo averages 2.0 made 3-pointers per game for the Colonels, scoring 12.1 points while shooting 34.0% from beyond the arc. Jasmine Matthews is averaging 10.6 points.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicholls Colonels (5-4, 1-1 Southland) at Texas A&amp;M-CC Islanders (1-8, 0-2 Southland) Corpus Christi, Texas; Monday, 6 p.m.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-102825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}