Tate, Southern Jaguars to face Jones, Houston Cougars on Sunday

Southern Jaguars (2-5) at Houston Cougars (5-3)

Houston; Sunday, 3 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: Southern faces Houston for a Division 1 Division matchup Sunday.

The Cougars are 3-1 in home games. Houston has a 1-0 record in one-possession games.

The Jaguars are 1-5 in road games. Southern averages 17.1 turnovers per game and is 2-2 when committing fewer turnovers than opponents.

Houston is shooting 38.8% from the field this season, 8.2 percentage points lower than the 47.0% Southern allows to opponents. Southern’s 33.4% shooting percentage from the field this season is 4.4 percentage points lower than Houston has given up to its opponents (37.8%).

TOP PERFORMERS: Kyndall Hunter is scoring 11.4 points per game with 2.3 rebounds and 1.6 assists for the Cougars. Jade Jones is averaging 10.1 points and 6.5 rebounds while shooting 54.1%.

Jaylia Reed is shooting 32.4% from beyond the arc with 1.6 made 3-pointers per game for the Jaguars, while averaging 6.7 points. DeMya Porter is averaging 8.7 points.

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

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