{"id":104757,"date":"2026-01-03T23:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/104757\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T23:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:37:11","slug":"florida-gulf-coast-defeats-north-alabama-72-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/104757\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Gulf Coast defeats North Alabama 72-55"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765942208_708_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>FLORENCE, Ala. (AP)  Rahmir Barno had 14 points in <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/FGC\/florida-gulf-coast-eagles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Gulf Coast<\/a>&#8216;s 72-55 win against <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/NALAB\/north-alabama-lions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North Alabama<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Barno also contributed five assists for the Eagles (7-8, 1-1 Atlantic Sun Conference). Jordan Ellerbee scored 13 points while going 5 of 8 (2 for 4 from 3-point range). Isaiah Malone finished 5 of 7 from the field to finish with 11 points, while adding eight rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions (5-8, 0-2) were led by Canin Jefferson, who finished with 14 points and six steals. Donte Bacchus added 13 points and nine rebounds for North Alabama. DarKaun King also recorded 11 points.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"StatsincCopyright\">\n    Copyright 2026 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) Rahmir Barno had 14 points in Florida Gulf Coast&#8216;s 72-55 win against North Alabama on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8294,28,26228,30,29,38642],"class_list":["post-104757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-college-basketball","tag-florida","tag-florida-gulf-coast-eagles","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-north-alabama-lions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}