{"id":146350,"date":"2026-02-01T10:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T10:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/146350\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T10:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T10:01:08","slug":"new-orleans-visits-harrison-and-east-texas-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/146350\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans visits Harrison and East Texas A&M"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Orleans Privateers (10-13, 7-6 Southland) at East Texas A&M Lions (8-14, 3-9 Southland)<\/p>\n

Commerce, Texas; Monday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: East Texas A&M hosts New Orleans after Ronnie Harrison Jr. scored 20 points in East Texas A&M\u2019s 72-68 loss to the Nicholls State Colonels.<\/p>\n

The Lions are 4-4 in home games. East Texas A&M allows 75.1 points and has been outscored by 3.6 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Privateers are 7-6 against Southland opponents. New Orleans ranks fourth in the Southland shooting 34.6% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n

East Texas A&M is shooting 43.1% from the field this season, 0.4 percentage points higher than the 42.7% New Orleans allows to opponents. New Orleans averages 7.1 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.8 fewer makes per game than East Texas A&M allows.<\/p>\n

The Lions and Privateers square off Monday for the first time in Southland play this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Harrison is averaging 15.3 points and 6.1 rebounds for the Lions. Damian Garcia is averaging 11.5 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Coleton Benson is shooting 37.6% from beyond the arc with 3.0 made 3-pointers per game for the Privateers, while averaging 15.5 points. MJ Thomas is averaging 12.1 points and 8.3 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

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\"Atlanta<\/p>\n

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\"UConn<\/p>\n

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LAST 10 GAMES: Lions: 2-8, averaging 64.7 points, 30.8 rebounds, 15.4 assists, 7.2 steals and 3.1 blocks per game while shooting 40.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 73.0 points per game.<\/p>\n

Privateers: 5-5, averaging 76.2 points, 35.3 rebounds, 11.5 assists, 4.8 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 46.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 76.4 points.<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Orleans Privateers (10-13, 7-6 Southland) at East Texas A&M Lions (8-14, 3-9 Southland) Commerce, Texas; Monday, 7:30…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1770,2692,416,61160,49066,16015,1192,4862,10985,61159,61158,57554,154,27,260,29,28,1760],"class_list":["post-146350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-damian-garcia","tag-data-skrive","tag-la-state-wire","tag-louisiana","tag-mens-college-basketball","tag-new-orleans","tag-ronnie-harrison","tag-ronnie-harrison-jr","tag-send-to-apple-news","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-texas-am-aggies","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tx-state-wire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146350","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=146350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}