{"id":103765,"date":"2025-12-29T16:15:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T16:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/103765\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T16:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T16:15:15","slug":"cooper-and-louisiana-tech-host-utep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/103765\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper and Louisiana Tech host UTEP"},"content":{"rendered":"

UTEP Miners<\/a> (4-7) at Louisiana Tech Bulldogs<\/a> (7-4)<\/p>\n

Ruston, Louisiana; Monday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Bulldogs -3.5; over\/under is 128.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Louisiana Tech faces UTEP after Kaden Cooper<\/a> 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<\/a> 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<\/a> 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

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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":"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":4290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-103765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103765","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=103765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}