Kansas State Wildcats (10-14, 1-10 Big 12) at Houston Cougars (22-2, 10-1 Big 12)<\/p>\n
Houston; Saturday, 4 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Kansas State takes on No. 3 Houston after PJ Haggerty scored 24 points in Kansas State’s 91-62 loss to the Cincinnati Bearcats.<\/p>\n
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The Cougars are 12-0 in home games. Houston scores 78.3 points and has outscored opponents by 17.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Wildcats are 1-10 in Big 12 play. Kansas State is eighth in the Big 12 scoring 80.9 points per game and is shooting 46.1%.<\/p>\n
Houston is shooting 45.5% from the field this season, the same percentage Kansas State allows to opponents. Kansas State averages 10.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.2 more made shots on average than the 6.8 per game Houston allows.<\/p>\n
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The matchup Saturday is the first meeting this season between the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Chris Cenac Jr. is averaging 9.7 points and 7.5 rebounds for the Cougars. Emanuel Sharp is averaging 2.6 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Abdi Bashir Jr. averages 3.7 made 3-pointers per game for the Wildcats, scoring 13.2 points while shooting 44.4% from beyond the arc. Haggerty is shooting 47.0% and averaging 23.8 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Cougars: 9-1, averaging 78.9 points, 32.0 rebounds, 13.8 assists, 7.1 steals and 3.5 blocks per game while shooting 46.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 62.8 points per game.<\/p>\n
Wildcats: 1-9, averaging 71.8 points, 26.8 rebounds, 16.1 assists, 6.0 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 42.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 84.7 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 The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kansas State Wildcats (10-14, 1-10 Big 12) at Houston Cougars (22-2, 10-1 Big 12) Houston; Saturday, 4 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[315,27383,784,3119,56,2742,58,57,19421,789,20931,3111],"class_list":{"0":"post-163002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-big-12","9":"tag-chris-cenac-jr","10":"tag-cincinnati-bearcats","11":"tag-emanuel-sharp","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-houston-cougars","14":"tag-houston-headlines","15":"tag-houston-news","16":"tag-kansas-state","17":"tag-kansas-state-wildcats","18":"tag-points-per-game","19":"tag-the-cougars"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163002","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=163002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}