{"id":58585,"date":"2025-11-18T14:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T14:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/58585\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T14:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T14:21:14","slug":"mens-hoops-tops-oakland-87-83-ucf-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/58585\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Hoops Tops Oakland, 87-83 &#8211; UCF Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Grizzlies tried to close the gap, the Knights continued to stay hot offensively, shooting 10-of-14 from the field and 3-of-5 from deep by the 12-minute media timeout to build a 67-53 lead.<\/p>\n<p>While the Black and Gold had built a large cushion, momentum dramatically shifted midway through the second half, as UCF hit a cold spell on both ends. Oakland took full advantage, going on a 15-0 run while the Knights went nearly three minutes without a basket, tying the game at 70.<\/p>\n<p>A clutch three from Kugel briefly halted the slide, but Oakland quickly responded with two free throws and a layup to take their first lead since the opening tip, 74-73, with under seven minutes remaining.<\/p>\n<p>In line with the back-and-forth contest, a slam-down dunk from <a href=\"https:\/\/ucfknights.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/john-bol\" title=\"John Bol\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Bol<\/a> put the Knights ahead, 81-77, with under three minutes remaining. Yet, the Grizzlies proved resilient, battling back to cut the deficit to a single point, 81-80, with 1:50 on the clock.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Wide open paint for a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnBol_7?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@JohnBol_7<\/a> flush \ud83d\udca5 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/krWpkWTvsA\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/krWpkWTvsA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UCF Men\u2019s Hoops \ud83c\udf34 (@UCF_MBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UCF_MBB\/status\/1990600075152900600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 18, 2025<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Grizzlies tried to close the gap, the Knights continued to stay hot offensively, shooting 10-of-14 from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[35576,35782,35784,143,145,144,35780,35781,13717,35783],"class_list":["post-58585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-central-florida-knights","tag-knights","tag-national-champs","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-ucf","tag-ucf-citronauts","tag-ucf-knights","tag-university-of-central-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}