{"id":165602,"date":"2026-02-15T11:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T11:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/165602\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T11:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T11:03:10","slug":"nicholls-state-plays-houston-christian-aims-for-4th-straight-road-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/165602\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholls State plays Houston Christian, aims for 4th straight road win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/nicholls-colonels-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicholls State Colonels<\/a> (11-15, 10-7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/southland\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Southland<\/a>) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/houston-baptist-huskies-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Christian Huskies<\/a> (9-17, 5-12 Southland)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Houston; Monday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Nicholls State will try to keep its three-game road win streak intact when the Colonels take on Houston Christian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">The Huskies are 7-4 in home games. Houston Christian is 3-10 in games decided by 10 points or more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">The Colonels are 10-7 in conference matchups. Nicholls State is seventh in the Southland with 9.0 offensive rebounds per game led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/jalik-dunkley-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalik Dunkley<\/a> averaging 2.7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Houston Christian&#8217;s average of 6.5 made 3-pointers per game this season is just 0.8 fewer made shots on average than the 7.3 per game Nicholls State gives up. Nicholls State averages 74.1 points per game, 1.1 more than the 73.0 Houston Christian gives up to opponents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">The matchup Monday is the first meeting this season between the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/kylin-green-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kylin Green<\/a> is scoring 10.3 points per game and averaging 4.0 rebounds for the Huskies. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/trent-johnson-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trent Johnson<\/a> is averaging 1.8 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/jaylen-searles-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaylen Searles<\/a> averages 2.1 made 3-pointers per game for the Colonels, scoring 13.5 points while shooting 36.3% from beyond the arc. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/sincere-malone-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sincere Malone<\/a> is shooting 48.3% and averaging 12.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Huskies: 4-6, averaging 65.6 points, 27.0 rebounds, 14.3 assists, 6.8 steals and 3.9 blocks per game while shooting 42.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 69.2 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Colonels: 3-7, averaging 70.5 points, 25.5 rebounds, 12.0 assists, 8.9 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 42.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 79.4 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicholls State Colonels (11-15, 10-7 Southland) at Houston Christian Huskies (9-17, 5-12 Southland) Houston; Monday, 8 p.m. EST&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2692,64550,56,20675,58,57,64252,67393,49969,67392,64250,67391,49807],"class_list":{"0":"post-165602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-college-basketball","9":"tag-event_preview","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-christian-huskies","12":"tag-houston-headlines","13":"tag-houston-news","14":"tag-jalik-dunkley","15":"tag-jaylen-searles","16":"tag-kylin-green","17":"tag-nicholls-state-colonels","18":"tag-sincere-malone","19":"tag-southland","20":"tag-trent-johnson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165602","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=165602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}