{"id":155031,"date":"2026-02-07T13:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T13:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/155031\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T13:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T13:18:12","slug":"how-to-watch-no-16-byu-basketball-vs-no-8-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/155031\/","title":{"rendered":"How to watch no. 16 BYU Basketball vs. no. 8 Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">BYU Basketball returns to the Marriott Center Saturday night to take on the Houston Cougars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The BYU Cougars find themselves struggling, having lost 3 consecutive games \u2014 To no. 1 Arizona, no. 11 Kansas, and most recently, to Oklahoma State. BYU played at Oklahoma State on Wednesday night, losing by a final score of 99-92. The Cougars are 17-5 overall with a 5-4 record in the Big 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Houston Cougars are having a stunning season, with a 20-2 overall record and just one loss in conference play (8-1). The conference loss was on Jan. 24 to Texas Tech. The Cougars\u2019 other loss was to Tennessee back on Nov. 25. Houston last played on Wednesday against UCF, with Houston winning by a final score of 79-55.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">BYU and Houston will only meet this one time in regular season play. Saturday marks the 12th meeting between the two teams, with Houston having the 8-3 edge, including a 3-1 record in Provo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">ESPN\u2019s Matchup Predictor gives Houston the better chance of winning, at almost 59 percent. Here\u2019s how to watch:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Leave any thoughts from before, during, or after the game in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BYU Basketball returns to the Marriott Center Saturday night to take on the Houston Cougars. The BYU Cougars&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8671,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-155031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-byu-basketball","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155031","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=155031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}