Houston 81, UTEP 87

March 8, 2008

Conference Regular Season

Don Haskins Center (El Paso, Texas)

Attendance: 8,663

Officials: Steve Welmer, Terry Moore, Jeff Malham

Team Rebounds: Houston (3) UTEP (9)

Technicals: Houston (0) UTEP (0)

  1 2 Final
U of H (22-8) 40 41 81
UTEP (17-12) 41 46 87

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
U of H 77 105.7 113.5
UTEP 77 113.5 105.7

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
U of H .500 0.157 0.290 0.209
UTEP .673 0.183 0.214 0.236

Houston Cougars

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL TO BLK PTS
- Dion Dowell Starter PF 37:00 5-10 3-6 2-2 16.0 3 7 10 0 2 1 0 1 15
- Tafari Toney Starter C 19:00 2-4 0-2 0-1 2.4 3 5 8 1 4 0 4 0 4
- Rob McKiver Starter PG 39:00 8-20 5-11 8-8 17.8 0 5 5 6 0 2 5 0 29
- Marcus Malone Starter SF 24:00 0-5 0-3 0-0 -2.2 0 0 0 2 3 1 0 0 0
- Lanny Smith Starter SG 27:00 5-9 4-5 2-4 9.2 0 0 0 4 5 1 1 0 16
- DaShaun Williams Bench SG 13:00 2-9 0-2 1-3 -2.9 1 0 1 0 4 1 0 0 5
- Marcus Cousin Bench C 18:00 3-4 0-0 1-1 5.4 2 3 5 0 3 0 1 0 7
- Kelvin Lewis Bench SG 23:00 2-6 1-4 0-0 2.0 0 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 5
  Team                   3            
        200 27-67 13-33 14-19 47.6 9 22 34 13 21 7 12 1 81
          40.3% 39.4% 73.7%                    

UTEP Miners

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL TO BLK PTS
- Victor Ramalho Starter PF 22:00 0-2 0-0 0-2 -2.2 1 4 5 0 4 0 2 0 0
- Jeremy Sampson Starter C 03:00 0-1 0-1 0-0 -0.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Pearson Smith Starter PG 13:00 2-4 1-2 1-2 4.5 2 1 3 1 1 0 1 0 6
- Stefon Jackson Starter SF 39:00 11-17 1-2 5-12 20.8 1 8 9 2 0 1 2 2 28
- Marvin Kilgore Starter SG 36:00 4-8 0-2 4-7 14.6 1 5 6 11 1 3 7 0 12
- Randy Culpepper Bench PG 20:00 6-10 4-5 0-0 11.8 1 1 2 2 3 2 1 0 16
- Tavaris Watts Bench PF 28:00 8-12 3-3 0-3 18.1 2 3 5 4 2 1 0 1 19
- Julyan Stone Bench SF 15:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 6.0 0 6 6 3 5 1 0 0 0
- Wayne Portalatin Bench C 04:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.8 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Gabriel McCulley Bench SF 20:00 1-1 1-1 3-4 7.8 1 4 5 0 2 0 1 2 6
  Team                   9            
        200 32-55 10-16 13-30 81.2 9 33 51 23 18 8 14 5 87
          58.2% 62.5% 43.3%                    

Houston Cougars Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Rob McKiver
23.1p, 4.1r, 2.9a
Lanny Smith
5.7p, 1.5r, 3.7a
Marcus Malone
3.6p, 1.8r, 1.1a
Dion Dowell
11p, 6.7r, 1.1a
Tafari Toney
6.8p, 6r, 0.4a
Rotation  
 
Kelvin Lewis
9.1p, 4r, 1a
 
 
 
 
Marcus Cousin
4.4p, 3.8r, 0.3a
Rotation  
 
DaShaun Williams
5.9p, 4.1r, 0.6a
 
 
 
 
 
 

UTEP Miners Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Pearson Smith
2.2p, 0.9r, 0.4a
Marvin Kilgore
12.8p, 4.7r, 5a
Stefon Jackson
24.4p, 5.7r, 1.7a
Victor Ramalho
6p, 4.7r, 0.4a
Jeremy Sampson
3p, 2.8r, 0.2a
Rotation Randy Culpepper
12.4p, 1.9r, 1.2a
 
 
Gabriel McCulley
3.1p, 2.7r, 0.4a
Tavaris Watts
6.5p, 4.2r, 0.7a
 
 
Rotation  
 
 
 
Julyan Stone
2.8p, 3.9r, 3.4a
 
 
 
 
Lim PT  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Wayne Portalatin
1.4p, 1.6r, 0.1a

Today's Games

(6) Duke 68
(1) North Carolina 76

(2) Memphis 94
UAB 56

(3) UCLA 81
California 80

Texas A&M 55
(5) Kansas 72

USC 77
(7) Stanford 64

(8) Xavier 86
Richmond 61

Northwestern 52
(10) Wisconsin 65

(11) Georgetown 55
(12) Louisville 52

(14) Butler 66
Illinois-Chicago 50

Alabama 78
(16) Vanderbilt 73

South Florida 60
(19) Notre Dame 67

(20) Drake 75
Creighton 67

Syracuse 87
(21) Marquette 72

(23) Washington State 76
Washington 73

(25) Davidson 82
Wofford 49