HOUSTON \u2014 Kingston Flemings had 18 points and six assists while Chris Cenac Jr. added 14 points plus 10 rebounds as No. 8 Houston beat UCF 79-55 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Cenac and Flemings combined for 22 points on 10-of-17 shooting in the first half as Houston (20-2, 8-1 Big 12) took a 33-19 lead into halftime.<\/p>\n
The duo finished 15 of 25 from the field.<\/p>\n
Milos Uzan scored 12 points for the Cougars, who shot 55% from the floor despite going 3 for 19 from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
Houston had a 40-29 advantage in rebounds and outscored the Knights 42-14 in the paint.<\/p>\n
The Cougars won their 17th straight at home and have won 50 of their last 51 home games.<\/p>\n
Houston also won its 11th straight over UCF.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re a terrific team,\u201d Knights coach Johnny Dawkins said. \u201cThey play at such a high level that you have to be prepared to match their intensity, match their physicality, and we were not able to do that this game.\u201d<\/p>\n
The victory gave the Cougars their 11th straight 20-win season under coach Kelvin Sampson.<\/p>\n
Dr. Phillips alum Riley Kugel paced the scoring with 9 points for the Knights (17-5, 6-4), who had won three in a row.<\/p>\n
The Knights shot 31% and were 6 of 21 on 3-pointers.<\/p>\n
The Knights fell to 2-3 this season against ranked teams and 4-5 in Quad 1 games as they look to shore up their NCAA Tournament resume.<\/p>\n
Leading by one, Houston went on an 18-5 run over an eight-minute span to open a 27-13 advantage on Cenac\u2019s jumper with 3:50 left in the first half.<\/p>\n
UCF shot 2 for 13 during the Cougars\u2019 spurt.<\/p>\n
Houston\u2019s lead never dipped below double digits the rest of the way.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
UCF visits Cincinnati on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Houston plays at No. 16 BYU on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2014 Kingston Flemings had 18 points and six assists while Chris Cenac Jr. added 14 points plus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[416,3118,56,58,57,3607,23153,11722,154,9816],"class_list":{"0":"post-151636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-college-sports","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-orange-county","15":"tag-orlando","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-ucf-knights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151636","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=151636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}