{"id":163866,"date":"2026-02-13T23:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/163866\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T23:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:19:09","slug":"mbb-mavericks-return-from-trip-for-saturday-matinee-against-southern-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/163866\/","title":{"rendered":"MBB: Mavericks Return from Trip for Saturday Matinee Against Southern Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     ABILENE, Texas \u2013\u00a0The UT Arlington Mavericks (14-10, 6-6 WAC) return to College Park Center following a three-game road swing through the WAC on Saturday at 2 p.m. (CT) when the Mavs host Southern Utah (8-17, 4-8 WAC). UTA will be looking to snap a four-game losing streak.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe game will be the 200th men&#8217;s basketball game (non-exhibition) at CPC since its opening in 2012. UTA&#8217;s College Park Center record is 138-61 (.693) since the building opened in 2012.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Mavs own a 5-2 head-to-head advantage against the Trailblazers all-time. In the seven previous \u00a0games, UTA has scored an average of 78.0 points per game and has topped 80 points in two straight meetings against the Trailblazers.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/cash-chavis\/14643\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14643\" target=\"_blank\">Cash Chavis<\/a> is coming off a 20-point performance Thursday night at Abilene Christian, while <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/marcell-mccreary\/14650\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14650\" target=\"_blank\">Marcell McCreary<\/a> was one rebound shy of a double-double.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe game will be broadcast live on ESPN+. In addition, the game will air live on the radio on the Varsity Network App with the Voice of the Mavs, Josh Sours, on the call.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 #BuckEm\u00a0\u2013<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nFOLLOW ALONG<br \/>\nFor updates, behind-the-scenes photos, videos and more engaging and personal content, follow the men&#8217;s basketball program on X (formerly Twitter) (<a href=\"https:\/\/nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Futamavs.com%2Fservices%2Fgo.ashx%2Fe99cc834-3c44-4dd2-b861-816666b633b7%3Felinkdata%3D336181&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cjordan.stepp%40uta.edu%7Ca7889031eb6e4776538308dcbaf0940e%7C5cdc5b43d7be4caa8173729e3b0a62d9%7C0%7C0%7C638590789693658617%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=l81pbu0%2FTZrFieuJaNmbpGPIwYCX7lp%2BKyHq%2Fw21unI%3D&amp;reserved=0\" title=\"https:\/\/nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Futamavs.com%2Fservices%2Fgo.ashx%2Fe99cc834-3c44-4dd2-b861-816666b633b7%3Felinkdata%3D336181&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cjordan.stepp%40uta.edu%7Ca7889031eb6e4776538308dcbaf0940e%7C5cdc5b43d7be4caa817372\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@UTAMavsMBB<\/a>), Instagram (<a href=\"https:\/\/nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Futamavs.com%2Fservices%2Fgo.ashx%2F26896a0c-dad0-4248-b73c-c73f1a7b112e%3Felinkdata%3D336181&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cjordan.stepp%40uta.edu%7Ca7889031eb6e4776538308dcbaf0940e%7C5cdc5b43d7be4caa8173729e3b0a62d9%7C0%7C0%7C638590789693666319%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=V8%2BydDfmY3L7AoXc3XZeV%2FCpqZzlSQwDmbR%2FhzosJpg%3D&amp;reserved=0\" title=\"https:\/\/nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Futamavs.com%2Fservices%2Fgo.ashx%2F26896a0c-dad0-4248-b73c-c73f1a7b112e%3Felinkdata%3D336181&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cjordan.stepp%40uta.edu%7Ca7889031eb6e4776538308dcbaf0940e%7C5cdc5b43d7be4caa817372\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@UTAMavsMBB<\/a>) and Facebook (<a href=\"https:\/\/nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Futamavs.com%2Fservices%2Fgo.ashx%2F46694e2c-ffd0-4fbb-be6c-ed0dd3a69c77%3Felinkdata%3D336181&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cjordan.stepp%40uta.edu%7Ca7889031eb6e4776538308dcbaf0940e%7C5cdc5b43d7be4caa8173729e3b0a62d9%7C0%7C0%7C638590789693673378%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=FgZ1dLBLRNsPzu8ZARGSdS4pWI7D78qJHxG3FlkbmAM%3D&amp;reserved=0\" title=\"Original URL:&#013;&#010;http:\/\/utamavs.com\/services\/go.ashx\/46694e2c-ffd0-4fbb-be6c-ed0dd3a69c77?elinkdata=336181&#013;&#010;&#013;&#010;Click to follow link.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\/UTAMavsMBB<\/a>).<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; ABILENE, Texas \u2013\u00a0The UT Arlington Mavericks (14-10, 6-6 WAC) return to College&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-163866","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\/163866","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=163866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}