{"id":218897,"date":"2026-01-03T20:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/218897\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T20:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:51:12","slug":"temple-76-57-utsa-jan-3-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/218897\/","title":{"rendered":"Temple 76-57 UTSA (Jan 3, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/4884255\/gavin-griffiths\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin Griffiths<\/a> had 23 points in Temple&#8217;s 76-57 win over UTSA on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>              Griffiths also contributed five rebounds and seven blocks for the Owls (10-5, 2-0 American Athletic Conference). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5106453\/jordan-mason\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Mason<\/a> scored 15 points and added five rebounds, 12 assists, and four steals. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5240369\/aiden-tobiason\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aiden Tobiason<\/a> had 13 points for the Owls, who prolonged their winning streak to six games.<\/p>\n<p>              The Roadrunners (4-10, 0-2) were led in scoring by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/4712837\/austin-nunez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Nunez<\/a>, who finished with 12 points. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5240407\/baboucarr-njie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baboucarr Njie<\/a> added 11 points and two blocks for UTSA. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5111919\/jamir-simpson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamir Simpson<\/a> also had 11 points. The loss is the seventh straight for the Roadrunners.<\/p>\n<p>              Temple took the lead for good with 9:23 left in the first half and built a 39-30 halftime advantage, with Mason racking up 10 points. Temple pulled away with a 10-2 run in the second half to extend its lead to 17 points. Griffiths scored 17 second-half points.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8212; \u2014 Gavin Griffiths had 23 points in Temple&#8217;s 76-57 win over UTSA on Saturday. Griffiths also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-218897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}