Texas Southern hosts Sam Houston following King's 20-point showing

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Sam Houston Bearkats (5-3) at Texas Southern Tigers (1-5)

Houston; Saturday, 5 p.m. EST

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Bearkats -5.5; over/under is 159.5

BOTTOM LINE: Sam Houston visits Texas Southern after Po'Boigh King scored 20 points in Sam Houston's 93-83 loss to the Oklahoma State Cowboys.

The Tigers have gone 1-1 in home games. Texas Southern has a 0-5 record against opponents over .500.

The Bearkats are 0-3 on the road. Sam Houston scores 86.9 points while outscoring opponents by 10.9 points per game.

Texas Southern's average of 5.8 made 3-pointers per game is 2.1 fewer made shots on average than the 7.9 per game Sam Houston allows. Sam Houston averages 9.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.6 more makes per game than Texas Southern allows.

TOP PERFORMERS: Troy Hupstead is scoring 15.4 points per game with 7.4 rebounds and 0.6 assists for the Tigers. Cameron Patterson is averaging 9.7 points and 2.3 rebounds while shooting 61.9%.

Isaiah Manning is scoring 11.3 points per game and averaging 3.9 rebounds for the Bearkats. King is averaging 10.3 points and 1.1 rebounds.

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.