{"id":214185,"date":"2026-03-21T09:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T09:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/214185\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T09:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T09:16:08","slug":"houston-cougars-face-the-texas-am-aggies-in-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/214185\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Cougars face the Texas A&M Aggies in second round"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas A&M Aggies<\/a> (22-11, 11-8 SEC<\/a>) vs. Houston Cougars<\/a> (29-6, 16-5 Big 12)<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City; Saturday, 6:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Cougars -10.5; over\/under is 142.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: No. 5 Houston and Texas A&M meet in the NCAA Tournament second round.<\/p>\n

The Cougars’ record in Big 12 play is 16-5, and their record is 13-1 in non-conference play. Houston is 23-6 against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n

The Aggies are 11-8 against SEC opponents. Texas A&M is eighth in the SEC with 23.7 defensive rebounds per game led by Rashaun Agee<\/a> averaging 6.2.<\/p>\n

Houston’s average of 8.8 made 3-pointers per game this season is just 0.6 more made shots on average than the 8.2 per game Texas A&M gives up. Texas A&M has shot at a 45.8% rate from the field this season, 6.1 percentage points above the 39.7% shooting opponents of Houston have averaged.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Kingston Flemings<\/a> is averaging 16.4 points, 5.3 assists and 1.6 steals for the Cougars. Emanuel Sharp<\/a> is averaging 12.3 points and 2.7 rebounds while shooting 34.1% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Agee is scoring 14.9 points per game and averaging 8.9 rebounds for the Aggies. Rylan Griffen<\/a> is averaging 2.1 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cougars: 6-4, averaging 74.4 points, 33.2 rebounds, 12.5 assists, 6.4 steals and 3.5 blocks per game while shooting 44.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 65.2 points per game.<\/p>\n

Aggies: 5-5, averaging 77.9 points, 32.1 rebounds, 14.3 assists, 7.0 steals and 2.5 blocks per game while shooting 43.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 80.0 points.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas A&M Aggies (22-11, 11-8 SEC) vs. Houston Cougars (29-6, 16-5 Big 12) Oklahoma City; Saturday, 6:10 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2692,3119,64550,2742,26195,24268,2748,9764,27,260,29,28],"class_list":["post-214185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-basketball","tag-emanuel-sharp","tag-event_preview","tag-houston-cougars","tag-kingston-flemings","tag-rashaun-agee","tag-rylan-griffen","tag-sec","tag-texas","tag-texas-am-aggies","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214185","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=214185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214185\/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=214185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}