{"id":194492,"date":"2026-03-07T07:57:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/194492\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T07:57:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:57:05","slug":"houston-77-64-baylor-mar-4-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/194492\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston 77-64 Baylor (Mar 4, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5149077\/kingston-flemings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kingston Flemings<\/a> had 21 points and seven assists, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5106058\/emanuel-sharp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emanuel Sharp<\/a> added 19 points and No. 7 Houston rallied for a 77-64 win over Baylor on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>              Flemings and Sharp combined to shoot 13 of 26 from the field, and Sharp was 5 of 10 on 3-pointers.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5060700\/joseph-tugler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Tugler<\/a> finished with 14 points and six rebounds and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5106272\/milos-uzan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milos Uzan<\/a> had 12 points for Houston (25-5, 13-4 Big 12), which used a big second-half run to overcome Baylor (15-15, 5-12).<\/p>\n<p>              The Cougars forced 18 turnovers and converted them into 28 points. They shot 46% and were 9 of 25 on 3-pointers.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5095152\/tounde-yessoufou\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tounde Yessoufou<\/a> had 20 points and 12 rebounds, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5107866\/caden-powell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caden Powell<\/a> added 12 points and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5113969\/cameron-carr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Carr<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5241273\/obi-agbim\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Obi Agbim<\/a> each had 11 for the Bears. Baylor shot 42% from the field and 8 of 25 from behind the arc, but made just two of their final 16 from long range.<\/p>\n<p>              Trailing 58-54 with about eight minutes remaining, the Cougars went on a 23-4 run to grab a 77-62 lead on two free throws by Tugler with 1:21 left. Houston, which never led for the first 32 minutes, took the lead for good on a 3-pointer by Sharp with 7:16 remaining. The Bears were 2-of-9 shooting in the final eight minutes.<\/p>\n<p>              The Bears led 29-19 after a layup by Yessoufou with 5:47 remaining, but the Cougars closed the half on a 16-6 spurt and tied it at 35 going into halftime on two free throws by Flemings with 5 seconds left. Flemings scored eight points in the half-ending run.<\/p>\n<p>              Up next&#13;<\/p>\n<p>              Baylor: Hosts Utah on Saturday in its regular-season finale.<\/p>\n<p>              Houston: Travels to Oklahoma State on Saturday in the regular-season finale.<\/p>\n<p>              \u2014<\/p>\n<p>              Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. AP college basketball: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8212; \u2014 Kingston Flemings had 21 points and seven assists, Emanuel Sharp added 19 points and No.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-194492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194492","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=194492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}