{"id":235365,"date":"2026-01-13T07:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T07:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/235365\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T07:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T07:42:11","slug":"northwestern-state-64-63-ut-rio-grande-valley-jan-12-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/235365\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwestern State 64-63 UT Rio Grande Valley (Jan 12, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NATCHITOCHES, La. &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/4897467\/micah-thomas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Micah Thomas<\/a> had 17 points and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5176781\/izzy-miles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Izzy Miles<\/a> made the first of two free throws with one second left to rally Northwestern State to a 64-63 victory over UT Rio Grande Valley on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>              Thomas also had five assists for the Demons (6-11, 4-4 Southland Conference). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5243094\/willie-williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Willie Williams<\/a> scored 14 points and added eight rebounds. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5176672\/chris-mubiru\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Mubiru<\/a> had 10 points.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5314736\/filip-brankovic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Filip Brankovic<\/a> led the way for the Vaqueros (6-11, 2-6) with 19 points. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5176333\/koree-cotton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Koree Cotton<\/a> added 14 points and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5314734\/julien-gomez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julien Gomez<\/a> scored nine.<\/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":"NATCHITOCHES, La. &#8212; \u2014 Micah Thomas had 17 points and Izzy Miles made the first of two free&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-235365","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\/235365","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=235365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}