{"id":79235,"date":"2025-12-07T12:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T12:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/79235\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T12:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T12:26:10","slug":"texas-am-squares-off-against-smu-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/79235\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&#038;M squares off against SMU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas A&amp;M Aggies play the SMU Mustangs at College Park Center in Arlington, Texas. The teams play Sunday for the first time this season. Texas A&amp;M is 5-1 at&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>SMU Mustangs (8-1) vs. Texas A&amp;M Aggies (7-2)<\/p>\n<p>Arlington, Texas; Sunday, 5 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/betmgm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Aggies -2.5; over\/under is 165.5<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: Texas A&amp;M takes on SMU at College Park Center in Arlington, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The Aggies are 7-2 in non-conference play. Texas A&amp;M is the top team in the SEC with 20.7 assists per game led by Josh Holloway averaging 3.3.<\/p>\n<p>The Mustangs have an 8-1 record against non-conference oppponents. SMU averages 11.4 turnovers per game and is 6-0 when turning the ball over less than opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Texas A&amp;M averages 92.2 points, 16.6 more per game than the 75.6 SMU gives up. SMU averages 14.3 more points per game (89.4) than Texas A&amp;M allows (75.1).<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Ruben Dominguez is shooting 50.0% and averaging 15.9 points for the Aggies. Rylan Griffen is averaging 1.9 made 3-pointers.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Miller averages 1.9 made 3-pointers per game for the Mustangs, scoring 20.8 points while shooting 42.5% from beyond the arc. Jaron Pierre Jr. is averaging 17.8 points and 6.1 rebounds.<\/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 Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas A&amp;M Aggies play the SMU Mustangs at College Park Center in Arlington, Texas. The teams play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-79235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79235","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=79235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}