{"id":103485,"date":"2025-12-29T10:36:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T10:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/103485\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T10:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T10:36:06","slug":"tarleton-state-plays-ut-arlington-for-conference-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/103485\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarleton State plays UT Arlington for conference showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UT Arlington and Tarleton State will play in a matchup of WAC foes. Monday&#8217;s matchup is the first of the season for the squads. UT Arlington is 0-0 against the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Tarleton State Texans (9-4) at UT Arlington Mavericks (8-4)<\/p>\n<p>Arlington, Texas; Monday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/betmgm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Mavericks -2.5; over\/under is 139.5<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: Freddy Hicks and Tarleton State visit Raysean Seamster and UT Arlington in WAC action Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks have gone 4-0 at home. UT Arlington averages 72.7 points while outscoring opponents by 8.4 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>The Texans have gone 2-4 away from home. Tarleton State is sixth in the WAC with 13.0 assists per game led by Jordan Mizell averaging 2.8.<\/p>\n<p>UT Arlington&#8217;s average of 5.3 made 3-pointers per game is 2.2 fewer made shots on average than the 7.5 per game Tarleton State gives up. Tarleton State averages 5.6 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.5 more made shots on average than the 4.1 per game UT Arlington gives up.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks and Texans meet Monday for the first time in WAC play this season.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Seamster is averaging 14.3 points and 6.8 rebounds for the Mavericks. Marcell McCreary is averaging 1.8 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Hicks is scoring 12.0 points per game and averaging 6.5 rebounds for the Texans. Dior Johnson is averaging 15.0 points and 1.7 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Mavericks: 7-3, averaging 72.5 points, 32.9 rebounds, 13.7 assists, 8.1 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 47.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 65.7 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Texans: 8-2, averaging 82.7 points, 33.4 rebounds, 13.8 assists, 12.7 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 49.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 65.2 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UT Arlington and Tarleton State will play in a matchup of WAC foes. Monday&#8217;s matchup is the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-103485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103485","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=103485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}