{"id":105936,"date":"2026-01-05T05:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T05:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/105936\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T05:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T05:52:15","slug":"stephenson-scores-17-florida-international-downs-utep-76-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/105936\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephenson scores 17, Florida International downs UTEP 76-64"},"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>MIAMI (AP)  Corey Stephenson&#8217;s 17 points helped <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/FIU\/florida-international-panthers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida International<\/a> defeat UTEP 76-64 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Stephenson had six rebounds for the Panthers (9-5, 2-1 Conference USA). Eric Dibami added 15 points while going 7 of 8 and 1 of 3 from the free-throw line while they also had 10 rebounds. Larry Olayinka had 11 points and shot 5 of 9 from the field.<\/p>\n<p>Kaseem Watson led the Miners (4-10, 0-3) in scoring, finishing with 25 points. UTEP also got nine points and three steals from Trey Horton. Jamal West also recorded eight points and eight rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Dibami scored seven points in the first half and Florida International went into the break trailing 30-29. Florida International pulled off the victory after a 13-1 second-half run erased a two-point deficit and gave the Panthers the lead at 57-47 with 9:03 left in the half. Stephenson scored 13 second-half 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":"MIAMI (AP) Corey Stephenson&#8217;s 17 points helped Florida International defeat UTEP 76-64 on Sunday. Stephenson had six rebounds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8294,28,30,42083,29,54571],"class_list":["post-105936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-college-basketball","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-international-panthers","tag-florida-news","tag-texas-el-paso-miners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105936","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=105936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105936\/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=105936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}