{"id":131016,"date":"2026-01-20T22:41:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/131016\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T22:41:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:41:18","slug":"tarleton-state-takes-on-ut-arlington-following-mcdowells-25-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/131016\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarleton State takes on UT Arlington following McDowell’s 25-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tarleton State Texans<\/a> (11-8, 2-4 WAC) at UT Arlington Mavericks<\/a> (12-6, 4-2 WAC)<\/p>\n

Arlington, Texas; Wednesday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Tarleton State takes on UT Arlington after Camron McDowell<\/a> scored 25 points in Tarleton State’s 75-71 loss to the Utah Tech Trailblazers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks are 6-1 in home games. UT Arlington averages 14.2 turnovers per game and is 5-2 when it has fewer turnovers than its opponents.<\/p>\n

The Texans are 2-4 against WAC opponents. Tarleton State averages 81.0 points and has outscored opponents by 6.5 points per game.<\/p>\n

UT Arlington’s average of 5.4 made 3-pointers per game is 2.2 fewer made shots on average than the 7.6 per game Tarleton State gives up. Tarleton State has shot at a 47.0% clip from the field this season, 5.5 percentage points higher than the 41.5% shooting opponents of UT Arlington have averaged.<\/p>\n

The matchup Wednesday is the first meeting this season between the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Marcell McCreary<\/a> is averaging 14.3 points, 5.1 rebounds and 1.7 steals for the Mavericks. Raysean Seamster<\/a> is averaging 10.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Dior Johnson<\/a> averages 1.5 made 3-pointers per game for the Texans, scoring 24.1 points while shooting 57.9% from beyond the arc. McDowell is shooting 52.1% and averaging 18.2 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Mavericks: 6-4, averaging 67.4 points, 31.8 rebounds, 9.9 assists, 7.1 steals and 2.8 blocks per game while shooting 42.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 67.3 points per game.<\/p>\n

Texans: 6-4, averaging 86.9 points, 31.0 rebounds, 12.9 assists, 13.5 steals and 2.0 blocks per game while shooting 48.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 73.0 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":"Tarleton State Texans (11-8, 2-4 WAC) at UT Arlington Mavericks (12-6, 4-2 WAC) Arlington, Texas; Wednesday, 8 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-131016","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\/131016","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=131016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131016\/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=131016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}