{"id":166171,"date":"2026-02-16T00:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/166171\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T00:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:15:13","slug":"no-5-iowa-state-cyclones-square-off-against-the-no-3-houston-cougars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/166171\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 5 Iowa State Cyclones square off against the No. 3 Houston Cougars"},"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\/houston-cougars-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Cougars<\/a> (23-2, 11-1 Big 12) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/iowa-state-cyclones-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iowa State Cyclones<\/a> (22-3, 9-3 Big 12)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Ames, Iowa; Monday, 9 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=\"\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Cyclones -1.5; over\/under is 133.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: No. 5 Iowa State take on the No. 3 Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">The Cyclones are 14-0 on their home court. Iowa State is 19-1 in games decided by at least 10 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">The Cougars are 11-1 in Big 12 play. Houston is 17-2 against opponents with a winning record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Iowa State averages 9.0 made 3-pointers per game, 2.1 more made shots than the 6.9 per game Houston gives up. Houston averages 13.8 more points per game (78.3) than Iowa State allows (64.5).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">The Cyclones and Cougars match up Monday for the first time in conference play this season.<\/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\/milan-momcilovic-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milan Momcilovic<\/a> is scoring 18.4 points per game and averaging 3.3 rebounds for the Cyclones. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/joshua-jefferson-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Jefferson<\/a> is averaging 1.3 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\/emanuel-sharp-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emanuel Sharp<\/a> is averaging 16.6 points for the Cougars. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/kingston-flemings-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kingston Flemings<\/a> is averaging 16.9 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: Cyclones: 7-3, averaging 78.0 points, 33.0 rebounds, 17.2 assists, 7.8 steals and 2.1 blocks per game while shooting 47.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 67.7 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=\"\">Cougars: 9-1, averaging 79.8 points, 32.8 rebounds, 14.8 assists, 7.4 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 46.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 62.7 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":"Houston Cougars (23-2, 11-1 Big 12) at Iowa State Cyclones (22-3, 9-3 Big 12) Ames, Iowa; Monday, 9&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2692,3119,64550,56,2742,58,57,4860,34554,26195,29158],"class_list":{"0":"post-166171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-college-basketball","9":"tag-emanuel-sharp","10":"tag-event_preview","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-houston-cougars","13":"tag-houston-headlines","14":"tag-houston-news","15":"tag-iowa-state-cyclones","16":"tag-joshua-jefferson","17":"tag-kingston-flemings","18":"tag-milan-momcilovic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166171","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=166171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166171\/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=166171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}