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The No. 6 Iowa State Cyclones host the No. 2 Houston Cougars Monday at 9 p.m. ET<\/a>. Iowa State and Houston are 5-5 all time, and 2-2 in their matchups since Houston joined the Big 12. <\/p>\n Houston vs. Iowa State will air on ESPN, and streams live on fuboTV (free trial)<\/a>.<\/p>\n What: Men\u2019s college basketball regular season<\/p>\n Who: Houston Cougars vs. Iowa State Cyclones<\/p>\n When: Monday, Feb. 16, 2026<\/p>\n Where: Hilton Coliseum, Ames, Iowa<\/p>\n Time: 9 p.m. ET<\/p>\n TV: ESPN<\/p>\n Live stream: fuboTV (free trial)<\/a>, DIRECTV (free trial)<\/a><\/p>\n Here\u2019s a recent college basketball story from the Associated Press:<\/p>\n HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Emanuel Sharp had 23 points and six rebounds as No. 3 Houston rallied from an early deficit to beat Kansas State 78-64 on Saturday for the Cougars\u2019 sixth straight win.<\/p>\n Sharp scored 14 points on 4 of 10 shooting in the first half as Houston (23-2, 11-1 Big 12) built a 33-19 halftime lead.<\/p>\n Milos Uzan added 12 points and eight assists, and Kingston Flemings finished with 12 points and seven rebounds for the Cougars, which won their 18th straight at home.<\/p>\n P.J. Haggerty scored 23 points to lead Kansas State (10-15, 1-11). Haggerty surpassed 2,000 points in his collegiate career in the first half, becoming the fifth current Division I player to achieve the milestone.<\/p>\n Nate Johnson had 12 points and 10 rebounds, and Taj Manning added 10 points for Kansas State. The Wildcats shot 35% from the field, 8 of 26 (31%) from 3-point range, and made 16 of 25 (64%) from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n The Wildcats raced to a 15-6 lead about 8 \u00bd minutes into the game on a 3-pointer by Haggerty, but Houston responded to finish the half on a 27-4 run. Sharp had nine points and Uzan added seven points in the spurt. Kansas State shot 1 for 15 from the floor to end the half.<\/p>\n Kansas State got no closer than 10 points in the second half.<\/p>\n The Wildcats have lost six consecutive games overall and have lost six straight on the road. Kansas State dropped to 0-6 against ranked teams this season.<\/p>\n Up next<\/p>\n Kansas State: Hosts Baylor on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Houston: Plays Monday at No. 5 Iowa State, the first of three straight games against Top-10 opponents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you purchase a product through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. The No. 6…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,29183,739,758],"class_list":["post-167874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-sport","tag-top-25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167874","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=167874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}