UTEP Miners (4-7) at Louisiana Tech Bulldogs (7-4)<\/p>\n
Ruston, Louisiana; Monday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Bulldogs -3.5; over\/under is 128.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Louisiana Tech faces UTEP after Kaden Cooper scored 24 points in Louisiana Tech’s 90-37 win against the Dallas Christian Crusaders.<\/p>\n The Bulldogs have gone 7-0 at home. Louisiana Tech is the leader in the CUSA at limiting opponent scoring, giving up 55.5 points while holding opponents to 34.9% shooting.<\/p>\n The Miners are 0-3 on the road. UTEP is fifth in the CUSA giving up 71.2 points while holding opponents to 44.6% shooting.<\/p>\n Louisiana Tech averages 71.5 points per game, 0.3 more points than the 71.2 UTEP allows. UTEP has shot at a 44.8% rate from the field this season, 9.9 percentage points greater than the 34.9% shooting opponents of Louisiana Tech have averaged.<\/p>\n The Bulldogs and Miners match up Monday for the first time in conference play this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: AJ Bates is scoring 12.3 points per game with 3.0 rebounds and 5.9 assists for the Bulldogs. Cooper is averaging 12.2 points and 9.1 rebounds while shooting 53.8% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Jamal West is averaging 13.5 points and 6.5 rebounds for the Miners. Caleb Blackwell is averaging 1.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Bulldogs: 7-3, averaging 73.6 points, 41.0 rebounds, 13.4 assists, 7.8 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 47.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 53.3 points per game.<\/p>\n Miners: 3-7, averaging 69.8 points, 29.1 rebounds, 12.2 assists, 9.1 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 43.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 72.7 points.<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n Success! An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup.\n <\/p>\n \n Error! There was an error processing your request.\n <\/p>\n For copyright information, check with the distributor of this item, Data Skrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UTEP Miners (4-7) at Louisiana Tech Bulldogs (7-4) Ruston, Louisiana; Monday, 7:30 p.m. EST BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Bulldogs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,9891,154,46948],"class_list":{"0":"post-103659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news","11":"tag-men","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-utep-louisiana-tech-preview"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103659","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=103659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}