{"id":71852,"date":"2025-11-27T06:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/71852\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T06:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:50:08","slug":"tounde-yessoufou-leads-short-handed-baylor-past-san-diego-state-in-players-era-consolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/71852\/","title":{"rendered":"Tounde Yessoufou leads short-handed Baylor past San Diego State in Players Era consolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Tounde Yessoufou scored 18 points to lead short-handed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/baylor-bears\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/baylor-bears\/\">Baylor<\/a> to a 91-81 victory over San Diego State on Wednesday night in a Players Era tournament consolation game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">All seven players who saw action for Baylor (5-1) scored at least seven points, with five in double figures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Baylor, which lost to No. 14 St. John\u2019s 96-81 on Tuesday, pulled away on a 16-1 run for a 69-55 lead with 6:21 remaining. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BaylorMBB\/status\/1993910287498420479?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Isaac Williams IV scored<\/a> six points and Dan Skillings Jr. had five during the stretch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BaylorMBB\/status\/1993915418160058819?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cameron Carr scored<\/a> 17 points for Baylor, which shot 53% (30 of 57) overall and 73% (22 of 30) from the free-throw line. Obi Agbim hit four 3-pointers and scored 16 points for the Bears. Williams finished with 13 points and Skillings added 11 points, eight rebounds and five assists.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Roundup<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest D-FW sports news, analysis and opinion delivered straight to your inbox. Plus, Kevin Sherrington&#8217;s A La Carte.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Miles Byrd scored 13 points for San Diego State (3-3). Elzie Harrington and Reese Dixon-Waters each made three 3-pointers and finished with 12 points apiece for the Aztecs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Michael Rataj scored all nine points of his points in the first half as Baylor shot 54% (14 of 26) from the floor and led 40-36 at the break. Harrington, Dixon-Waters and Tae Simmons each scored six first-half points for San Diego State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Fifth-year guard JJ White did not play for Baylor because of a foot injury. The Bears were also without junior center Juslin Bodo Bodo (arm) and freshman forward Maikcol Perez (ACL).<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">It\u2019s the first meeting between the teams since 2011, which Baylor won at home 77-67.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Baylor is at home against Sacramento State on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">San Diego State hosts Utah Valley on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/baylor-bears\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find more Baylor coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Tounde Yessoufou scored 18 points to lead short-handed Baylor to a 91-81 victory over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[13673,42163,74,76,75,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-71852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-baylor-bears","9":"tag-colleges","10":"tag-san-diego","11":"tag-san-diego-headlines","12":"tag-san-diego-news","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71852","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=71852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}