{"id":66684,"date":"2025-11-27T00:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/66684\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T00:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:05:09","slug":"notre-dame-falls-to-no-3-houston-in-consolation-game-of-players-era-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/66684\/","title":{"rendered":"Notre Dame falls to No. 3 Houston in consolation game of Players Era Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LAS VEGAS (AP\/WNDU) &#8211; The Notre Dame men\u2019s basketball team dropped to 5-3 on the season after falling to No. 3 Houston 66-56 on Wednesday in the consolation game of the Players Era Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Houston (7-1), which had its season-opening six-game win streak halted in the tournament\u2019s second round\u00a0against No. 17 Tennessee 76-73, opened with a 26-4 run against Notre Dame and withstood a late comeback try by the Irish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Houston led by 22 points with 5:21 remaining in the first half and led 39-25 at the break. The Irish went on a 10-point run midway through the second half that cut a 14-point lead to four with 12:16 left in the game. However, Notre Dame never got closer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Markus Burton\u00a0led Notre Dame with 19 points and\u00a0Jalen Haralson\u00a0added 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Emanuel Sharp scored 17 points to lead the Cougars. Milos Uzon scored 15 points and\u00a0Joseph Tugler\u00a0added 10 before fouling out for Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Notre Dame will host Missouri this upcoming Tuesday in the ACC\/SEC Challenge. Tipoff is set for 9 p.m. on ESPNU.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Copyright 2025 WNDU. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (AP\/WNDU) &#8211; The Notre Dame men\u2019s basketball team dropped to 5-3 on the season after falling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1770,34483,34480,34479,20982,4459,56,58,57,34481,34485,9933,17990,34484,9891,21306,20980,34482,34478],"class_list":["post-66684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-basketball","tag-consolation","tag-couagrs","tag-falls","tag-fighting-irish","tag-game","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-irish","tag-jalen-haralson","tag-las-vegas","tag-loss","tag-markus-burton","tag-men","tag-mens-basketball","tag-notre-dame","tag-players-era-championship","tag-wndu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66684","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=66684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}