Cincinnati Bearcats @ Houston Cougars

17-13, 7-10 American

Final

	1	2	T
Cincinnati CIN	34	19	53
Houston HOU	38	33	71

Houston CougarsHoustonHOU

25-4, 14-2 American

Cincinnati Bearcats

starters
Abdul AdoA. Ado#00
John Newman IIIJ. Newman III#15
Jeremiah DavenportJ. Davenport#24
Mika Adams-WoodsM. Adams-Woods#23
David DeJuliusD. DeJulius#5
bench
Jarrett HensleyJ. Hensley#32
Ody OguamaO. Oguama#33
Hayden KovalH. Koval#25
Viktor LakhinV. Lakhin#30
Mason MadsenM. Madsen#45
Mike Saunders Jr.M. Saunders#3
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
11	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3
30	11	4-8	2-4	1-3	7	2	1	1	0	2	5	3
30	7	2-10	2-8	1-2	3	1	1	1	0	1	2	3
21	2	1-7	0-3	0-0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	2
29	9	4-10	1-6	0-0	1	4	6	1	0	0	1	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
14	0	0-1	0-1	0-2	4	0	2	1	1	2	2	3
17	3	1-2	0-0	1-7	4	0	0	0	1	1	3	1
4	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
12	4	2-3	0-0	0-0	3	1	0	0	0	2	1	2
10	3	1-2	1-2	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
22	14	5-7	2-3	2-2	3	0	3	1	0	0	3	0
	53	20-50	8-27	5-16	28	9	15	7	2	9	19	20
		40%	30%	31%

Houston Cougars

starters
Josh CarltonJ. Carlton#25
Jamal SheadJ. Shead#1
Kyler EdwardsK. Edwards#11
Taze MooreT. Moore#4
Fabian White Jr.F. White Jr. #35
bench
J'Wan RobertsJ. Roberts#13
Ramon Walker Jr.R. Walker#3
Robbie ArmbresterR. Armbrester #2
Reggie ChaneyR. Chaney #32
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
28	15	3-8	0-0	9-11	9	2	2	0	0	6	3	3
29	4	1-3	0-1	2-2	4	2	4	0	0	0	4	2
37	12	4-8	1-3	3-3	4	4	1	2	0	1	3	0
34	12	5-10	2-4	0-0	6	2	0	1	0	0	6	4
36	28	10-21	2-6	6-8	10	1	2	2	2	5	5	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
13	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	5	0	0	0	0	1	4	2
19	0	0-3	0-2	0-0	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	3
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
	71	23-54	5-16	20-24	41	11	12	6	3	13	28	14
		43%	31%	83%

Taze Moore buries a buzzer-beating 3 to end the 1st half

0:28

John Newman III steals and slams with authority

0:28

Kyler Edwards gets the and-1 to fall

0:16

Game Information

Houston, TX

Referee:Anthony Jordan

Referee:Tony Greene

Referee:Joe Lindsay

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

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