{"id":224547,"date":"2026-01-07T02:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/224547\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T02:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:20:07","slug":"ohio-86-83-massachusetts-jan-6-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/224547\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio 86-83 Massachusetts (Jan 6, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS, Ohio &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5108006\/javan-simmons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Javan Simmons<\/a> led Ohio with 20 points, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5107317\/jackson-paveletzke\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Paveletzke<\/a> sealed the victory with a free throw with 59 seconds remaining as the Bobcats defeated UMass 86-83 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>              Simmons added five rebounds for the Bobcats (9-7, 3-1 Mid-American Conference). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5314210\/jj-kelly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JJ Kelly<\/a> scored 14 points while going 5 of 6 from the field. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5243083\/jesse-burris\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jesse Burris<\/a> went 5 of 8 from the field (3 for 6 from 3-point range) to finish with 13 points.<\/p>\n<p>              The Minutemen (9-7, 0-4) were led in scoring by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5105551\/daniel-hankins-sanford\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Hankins-Sanford<\/a>, who finished with 16 points and nine rebounds. Marcus Banks added 14 points and two steals for UMass. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5041934\/danny-carbuccia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Danny Carbuccia<\/a> had 13 points and eight assists.<\/p>\n<p>              Kelly scored a team-high 12 points for Ohio in the second half.<\/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":"ATHENS, Ohio &#8212; \u2014 Javan Simmons led Ohio with 20 points, and Jackson Paveletzke sealed the victory with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-224547","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\/224547","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=224547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}