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Texas Southern 79, Grand Canyon 103

Final. Monday, November 2, 2026, 9:00 PM ET at Global Credit Union Arena. Texas Southern our rank 347 · 1-2; Grand Canyon our rank 70 · 3-0.

Who won Texas Southern vs Grand Canyon?

Final: Grand Canyon 103, Texas Southern 79. Before tip-off the model gave Grand Canyon a 98% chance to win, with a projected margin of 25.5 points for Grand Canyon. Jaden Henley scored 22 for Grand Canyon; Karris Bilal had 15 for Texas Southern.

Prediction made that morning; page updated November 13, 2026.

The call

From this morning's ratings; logged before tip-off.
To winGrand Canyon 98%Texas Southern 2%
Projected score54–80Texas Southern, then Grand Canyon
Margin25.5Grand Canyon · no line posted
Total134.4no line posted
First half25–39Grand Canyon ahead 90%
Evenby 10by 20by 30by 40by 50Grand Canyon by 60Model: Grand Canyon by 25.5Evenby 20by 40Grand Canyon by 60Model: Grand Canyon by 25.5

Half of games like thisFour in five

Calls of 90–100% have been right 95.4% of the time in 11,767 past games, and the typical miss on the margin is 8.8 points. After the final, the result is pinned to this strip.

The game without one player

Pick a regular to sit him

Without Jaden Henley: Texas Southern 3%Grand Canyon 97%

The white mark is the call with him: Grand Canyon 98%.

PlayerPoints a game he addsGrand Canyon without himChangeProjected score
Grand Canyon
Jaden Henley2.897%−156–79
Dylan Darling2.597%−156–79
Makaih Williams2.497%−156–79
Tre Holloman1.797%−155–79

Change is in Grand Canyon's win chance, in points. Scores read Texas Southern, then Grand Canyon. A player's value is what the team is better by with him than with a replacement, from the player ratings.

Play-by-play

    Team numbers

    Why the model sees it this way

    The game in numbers

    The matchup

    Form

    Each team's last five before this game

    Texas Southern

    No games yet this season: this is its first.

    Grand Canyon

    No games yet this season: this is its first.

    The spread and the total are the lines logged with each prediction. Form is what happened; the ratings above already count recent games more.

    Offense against defense

    Adjusted for opponents · rank of 365
    Texas SouthernGrand Canyon
    Points scored per 100 possessions96.4 320th113.4 65th
    Points allowed per 100115.4 343rd101.8 79th
    Possessions a game72.3 49th72.7 29th
    Shooting (effective field-goal %)48.4% 319th51.5% 108th
    Opponents' shooting52.1% 291st51.0% 221st
    Turnovers, share of possessions17.2% 83rd16.9% 58th
    Offensive rebounds, share of misses30.3% 267th32.4% 144th
    Free throws per shot0.29 67th0.27 143rd

    The widest gap: Grand Canyon's offense (65th) against Texas Southern's defense (343rd), of 365 teams.

    First half

    Projected before tip-off

    Ahead at halftime

    Grand Canyon led at the half, as projected. The margin was off by 3.0 points and the total by 21.9.

    At halftime
    Texas Southern 37, Grand Canyon 48
    Projected halftime score
    Texas Southern 25, Grand Canyon 39
    First-half margin
    Grand Canyon by 14.0
    First-half points, both teams
    63.1
    Tied at the half
    4%

    Our own projection, not a sportsbook's first-half line. On 11,516 past games it had not seen, the halftime leader was right 67.2% of the time and the first-half total was off by 8.1 points on average. This season: 366 of 476 halftime leaders right. Scorecard

    Box score

    Each team's players, most minutes first

    Texas Southern

    PlayerMinPtsRebAst3s
    Kehlin FarooqG376600
    Jason KimbroughG3014232
    Ben VungoG267700
    Karris BilalG2515120
    Ahmed NedalG185300
    Xander WedlowF1513301
    Cameron PattersonG157220
    Trey LewisG123131
    Sayed SayedG122010

    Grand Canyon

    PlayerMinPtsRebAst3s
    Dylan DarlingG2815562
    Amarion DickersonF2512442
    Tre HollomanG237262
    Jaden HenleyG2122511
    Blake BarkleyF198312
    Omaha BiliewF198420
    Jaden ZimmermanG179311
    Efe DemirelC1611200
    Tyler BehrendF156800

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