{"id":141011,"date":"2026-01-28T10:41:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/141011\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T10:41:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:41:06","slug":"ut-arlington-hosts-southern-utah-after-feroahs-35-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/141011\/","title":{"rendered":"UT Arlington hosts Southern Utah after Feroah’s 35-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Southern Utah Thunderbirds<\/a> (7-14, 3-5 WAC) at UT Arlington Mavericks<\/a> (13-6, 5-2 WAC)<\/p>\n

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

BOTTOM LINE: Southern Utah takes on UT Arlington after Jaiden Feroah<\/a> scored 35 points in Southern Utah’s 102-91 loss to the Utah Tech Trailblazers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks have gone 7-1 at home. UT Arlington is sixth in the WAC scoring 71.9 points while shooting 45.3% from the field.<\/p>\n

The Thunderbirds are 3-5 in WAC play. Southern Utah is seventh in the WAC allowing 80.7 points while holding opponents to 45.8% shooting.<\/p>\n

UT Arlington’s average of 5.4 made 3-pointers per game is 2.0 fewer made shots on average than the 7.4 per game Southern Utah allows. Southern Utah averages 7.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.8 more made shots on average than the 4.0 per game UT Arlington gives up.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks and Thunderbirds match up Thursday for the first time in WAC play this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Marcell McCreary<\/a> is shooting 45.9% and averaging 13.8 points for the Mavericks. Marcus Rigsby Jr. is averaging 1.1 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Feroah is averaging 13.9 points, seven rebounds and 1.8 blocks for the Thunderbirds. Elijah Duval<\/a> is averaging 12.1 points and 3.6 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Mavericks: 7-3, averaging 68.2 points, 31.0 rebounds, 10.9 assists, 7.1 steals and 3.1 blocks per game while shooting 43.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 65.4 points per game.<\/p>\n

Thunderbirds: 3-7, averaging 75.1 points, 33.2 rebounds, 13.2 assists, 4.7 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 45.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 81.2 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":"Southern Utah Thunderbirds (7-14, 3-5 WAC) at UT Arlington Mavericks (13-6, 5-2 WAC) Arlington, Texas; Thursday, 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-141011","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\/141011","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=141011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141011\/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=141011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}