Houston Cougars @ UT Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros

2-0, 1-0 Away

Final

	1	2	T
Houston HOU	46	31	77
UT Rio Grande RGV	38	27	65

UT Rio Grande Valley VaquerosUT Rio GrandeRGV

0-2, 0-2 Home

Houston Cougars

starters
TaShawn ThomasT. Thomas#35
Mikhail McLeanM. McLean#1
L.J. Bernard RoseL.J. Rose#5
Danuel House Jr.D. House Jr.#23
Jherrod StiggersJ. Stiggers#21
bench
J.J. RichardsonJ.J. Richardson#55
Valentine IzunduV. Izundu#45
Jaaron SimmonsJ. Simmons#3
Tione WomackT. Womack#14
Brandon MorrisB. Morris#2
LeRon BarnesL. Barnes#4
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
37	19	7-10	0-0	5-10	14	2	1	1	1	4	10	2
14	4	2-2	0-0	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
31	16	4-6	1-2	7-8	2	6	3	3	0	0	2	0
33	15	5-12	1-4	4-4	5	3	5	1	0	1	4	1
25	11	4-9	1-5	2-2	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	3
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
6	1	0-1	0-0	1-2	1	0	3	0	0	1	0	2
4	0	0-0	0-0	0-2	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
10	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	2	1	0	0	0	2
22	0	0-4	0-0	0-0	6	4	0	2	0	2	4	2
11	7	3-5	0-1	1-2	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	4
7	4	2-3	0-1	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	2
	77	27-52	3-13	20-30	39	17	16	9	2	12	27	18
		52%	23%	67%

UT Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros

starters
Justin LeathersJ. Leathers#32
Shaquille HinesS. Hines#24
Lauri ToivonenL. Toivonen#21
Shaquille BogaS. Boga#5
Javorn FarrellJ. Farrell#3
bench
Alex MajewskiA. Majewski#35
Josh ClevelandJ. Cleveland#25
Christian HildebrandtC. Hildebrandt #44
Jake RaspopovichJ. Raspopovich #0
Hurley JohnsonH. Johnson#30
Jamal DantzlerJ. Dantzler#4
Blake ProvostB. Provost#1
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
31	10	2-4	2-2	4-4	7	2	2	0	1	1	6	3
27	6	3-6	0-2	0-0	7	0	1	1	0	3	4	4
26	2	1-2	0-0	0-0	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	2
34	15	5-14	0-2	5-6	2	3	2	1	0	1	1	1
35	16	5-12	0-4	6-8	2	1	6	1	0	0	2	3
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
4	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	6	3-4	0-0	0-0	3	1	0	0	0	2	1	4
12	6	2-4	2-4	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1
9	1	0-2	0-1	1-6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
8	3	1-2	0-1	1-3	2	1	0	0	0	1	1	2
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
	65	22-51	4-17	17-27	28	10	14	3	1	9	19	24
		43%	24%	63%

Game Information

Edinburg, TX

Referee:Tom Eades

Referee:Darron George

Referee:Rick Hartzell

NCAA Division I

Big 12 Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Arizona	16-2	-	36-3
Houston	14-4	2	30-7
Iowa State	12-6	4	29-8
Kansas	12-6	4	24-11
Texas Tech	12-6	4	23-11
TCU	11-7	5	23-12
BYU	9-9	7	23-12
UCF	9-9	7	21-12
West Virginia	9-9	7	21-14
Cincinnati	9-9	7	18-15
Colorado	7-11	9	17-16
Arizona State	7-11	9	17-16
Oklahoma State	6-12	10	20-15
Baylor	6-12	10	17-17
Kansas State	3-15	13	12-20
Utah	2-16	14	10-22

Southland Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Stephen F. Austin	20-2	-	28-6
McNeese	19-3	1	28-6
UT Rio Grande Valley	14-8	6	19-14
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi	13-9	7	18-15
New Orleans	12-10	8	15-18
Nicholls	12-10	8	14-19
Houston Christian	8-14	12	12-20
Northwestern State	8-14	12	10-22
Incarnate Word	7-15	13	12-19
Lamar	7-15	13	12-19
East Texas A&M	6-16	14	11-21
SE Louisiana	6-16	14	9-22

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