{"id":129755,"date":"2026-01-20T01:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T01:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/129755\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T01:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T01:25:07","slug":"ut-arlington-basketball-and-tennis-to-compete-this-week-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/129755\/","title":{"rendered":"UT Arlington basketball and tennis to compete this week | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"UT Arlington basketball and tennis to compete this week\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1763\" height=\"1175\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/696e904c4e910.image.png\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theshorthorn.com\/users\/profile\/Ryleigh%20A.%20Hood\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Illustration by Ryleigh Hood<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the spring slate comes underway, UTA sports are preparing for a week of competition.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the schedule from Tuesday to Jan. 26. <\/p>\n<p>Wheelchair basketball<\/p>\n<p>The Movin\u2019 Mavs and Lady Movin\u2019 Mavs begin the spring semester with a home tournament Friday from 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. The tournament will continue from 9 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. Saturday, with all games being played at the Maverick Activities Center and the Physical Education Building.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Men&#8217;s basketball<\/p>\n<p>After an 86-74 loss to Utah Valley University on Saturday, the men&#8217;s basketball team is set to face Tarleton State University at 7 p.m Wednesday at College Park Center. The game will be available to stream on ESPN+. <\/p>\n<p>Women&#8217;s basketball<\/p>\n<p>After the slow start to Western Athletic Conference play, the women&#8217;s team has gone on a two-game winning streak, beating Utah Tech University and Utah Valley at home. <\/p>\n<p>The team looks to carry this momentum into its matchup against Tarleton State, which will tip off at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the EECU Center in Stephenville, Texas. <\/p>\n<p>Women&#8217;s tennis<\/p>\n<p>The women&#8217;s tennis team is set to open up its spring slate this week with a three-game home stretch at the UTA Tennis Center. <\/p>\n<p>The season opener is against the University of Houston at 2 p.m. Thursday. The team will then face the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley at 11 a.m. Saturday, before closing out this stretch against Elon University at 10 a.m. Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Men&#8217;s tennis<\/p>\n<p>The men&#8217;s tennis team opened its spring season on the road, where it faced Texas A&amp;M University, losing 7-0 Saturday at the Mitchell Tennis Center. <\/p>\n<p>The team looks to bounce back against Oklahoma State University at 5 p.m. Saturday at the Greenwood Tennis Center. <\/p>\n<p>@tracysansomjr<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theshorthorn.com\/sports\/ut-arlington-basketball-and-tennis-to-compete-this-week\/mailto:sports-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sports-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Illustration by Ryleigh Hood As the spring slate comes underway, UTA sports are preparing for a week of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-129755","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","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129755","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=129755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}