{"id":236937,"date":"2026-01-14T05:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T05:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/236937\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T05:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T05:19:07","slug":"belmont-78-74-valparaiso-jan-13-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/236937\/","title":{"rendered":"Belmont 78-74 Valparaiso (Jan 13, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn. &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5241334\/jabez-jenkins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jabez Jenkins<\/a> scored 17 points and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5176309\/drew-scharnowski\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drew Scharnowski<\/a> secured the victory with a layup with 11 seconds remaining as Belmont held off Valparaiso 78-74 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>              Jenkins finished 8 of 12 from the field for the Bruins (16-3, 6-2 Missouri Valley Conference). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5241333\/eoin-dillon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eoin Dillon<\/a> scored 12 points on 5-fo-7 shooting and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5255092\/jack-smiley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Smiley<\/a> scored 11.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/4897302\/owen-dease\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Owen Dease<\/a> led the way for the Beacons (8-10, 2-5) with 24 points. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5313883\/rakim-chaney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rakim Chaney<\/a> added 17 points and four assists, while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5313884\/brody-whitaker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brody Whitaker<\/a> finished with 11 points.<\/p>\n<p>              Jenkins scored 11 points in the first half for Belmont, which led 41-39 at halftime. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5176311\/brigham-rogers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brigham Rogers<\/a> scored a team-high six points for Belmont 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":"NASHVILLE, Tenn. &#8212; \u2014 Jabez Jenkins scored 17 points and Drew Scharnowski secured the victory with a layup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-236937","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\/236937","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=236937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}