Texas A&M-CC Islanders (3-14, 2-8 Southland) at Incarnate Word Cardinals (9-8, 7-3 Southland)<\/p>\n
San Antonio; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Incarnate Word hosts Texas A&M-CC after Gwendlyn McGrew scored 22 points in Incarnate Word\u2019s 74-65 victory over the Houston Christian Huskies.<\/p>\n
The Cardinals are 6-2 on their home court. Incarnate Word allows 69.4 points and has been outscored by 6.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Islanders are 2-8 against conference opponents. Texas A&M-CC ranks third in the Southland with 23.5 defensive rebounds per game led by K\u2019Nari Holliday averaging 4.3.<\/p>\n
Incarnate Word is shooting 39.9% from the field this season, 1.4 percentage points higher than the 38.5% Texas A&M-CC allows to opponents. Texas A&M-CC\u2019s 38.4% shooting percentage from the field this season is 4.9 percentage points lower than Incarnate Word has given up to its opponents (43.3%).<\/p>\n
The Cardinals and Islanders face off Saturday for the first time in Southland play this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Brynn Lusby is scoring 10.6 points per game and averaging 4.8 rebounds for the Cardinals. Madison Cockrell is averaging 10.7 points and 2.5 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Asha Walker is shooting 38.4% from beyond the arc with 2.2 made 3-pointers per game for the Islanders, while averaging 7.8 points. Samora Watson is shooting 38.3% and averaging 10.9 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Cardinals: 7-3, averaging 64.3 points, 34.1 rebounds, 11.1 assists, 7.7 steals and 2.0 blocks per game while shooting 39.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 63.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
Islanders: 2-8, averaging 56.8 points, 32.8 rebounds, 12.6 assists, 6.1 steals and 3.0 blocks per game while shooting 38.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 65.1 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":"Texas A&M-CC Islanders (3-14, 2-8 Southland) at Incarnate Word Cardinals (9-8, 7-3 Southland) San Antonio; Saturday, 2 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-135246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135246","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=135246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}