UT Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros (9-11, 5-6 Southland) at Texas A&M-CC Islanders (11-9, 7-4 Southland)<\/p>\n
Corpus Christi, Texas; Monday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Texas A&M-CC faces UT Rio Grande Valley after Sheldon Williams scored 22 points in Texas A&M-CC\u2019s 79-71 win against the Incarnate Word Cardinals.<\/p>\n
The Islanders have gone 6-2 at home. Texas A&M-CC is third in the Southland in rebounding averaging 33.7 rebounds. Williams leads the Islanders with 7.1 boards.<\/p>\n
The Vaqueros are 5-6 against conference opponents. UT Rio Grande Valley has a 2-2 record in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n
Texas A&M-CC makes 45.3% of its shots from the field this season, which is 3.8 percentage points higher than UT Rio Grande Valley has allowed to its opponents (41.5%). UT Rio Grande Valley has shot at a 46.3% rate from the field this season, 4.4 percentage points greater than the 41.9% shooting opponents of Texas A&M-CC have averaged.<\/p>\n
The matchup Monday is the first meeting this season between the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Leo Torbor is averaging 6.5 points for the Islanders. Williams is averaging 11.5 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Marvin McGhee III averages 2.3 made 3-pointers per game for the Vaqueros, scoring 10.5 points while shooting 42.5% from beyond the arc. Koree Cotton is averaging 13.6 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Islanders: 7-3, averaging 73.0 points, 32.6 rebounds, 12.6 assists, 8.6 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 46.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 63.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
Vaqueros: 5-5, averaging 73.3 points, 29.5 rebounds, 19.0 assists, 6.6 steals and 2.7 blocks per game while shooting 47.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 67.0 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":"UT Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros (9-11, 5-6 Southland) at Texas A&M-CC Islanders (11-9, 7-4 Southland) Corpus Christi, Texas;…\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-138201","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\/138201","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=138201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138201\/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=138201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}