{"id":40999,"date":"2025-11-08T11:17:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/40999\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T11:17:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:17:15","slug":"texas-and-lafayette-square-off-in-non-conference-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/40999\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas and Lafayette square off in non-conference showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lafayette Leopards (1-1) at Texas Longhorns (0-1)<\/p>\n<p>Austin, Texas; Saturday, 3 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/betmgm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Longhorns -22.5; over\/under is 150.5<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: Texas hosts Lafayette in a non-conference matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Texas finished 19-16 overall last season while going 11-7 at home. The Longhorns averaged 78.5 points per game last season, 30.9 in the paint, 14.3 off of turnovers and 11.3 on fast breaks.<\/p>\n<p>Lafayette went 13-20 overall with a 3-14 record on the road last season. The Leopards averaged 14.7 assists per game on 24.5 made field goals last season.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Data Skrive;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sportradar;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lafayette Leopards (1-1) at Texas Longhorns (0-1) Austin, Texas; Saturday, 3 p.m. EST BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Longhorns -22.5;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[132,25034,25036,27,29,537,28,25035],"class_list":{"0":"post-40999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-lafayette-leopards","10":"tag-non-conference","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-longhorns","14":"tag-texas-news","15":"tag-the-leopards"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40999","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=40999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}