{"id":128838,"date":"2026-01-23T06:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/128838\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T06:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:12:09","slug":"utep-defeats-florida-international-83-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/128838\/","title":{"rendered":"UTEP defeats Florida International 83-77"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768989507_340_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>EL PASO, Texas (AP)  Jamal West&#8217;s 28 points helped UTEP defeat <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/FIU\/florida-international-panthers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida International<\/a> 83-77 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>West also had seven rebounds, five assists, and three steals for the Miners (7-12, 3-5 Conference USA). Elijah Jones scored 14 points, going 5 of 6 (4 for 4 from 3-point range). LA Hayes went 4 of 6 from the field (2 for 3 from 3-point range) to finish with 12 points.<\/p>\n<p>Larry Olayinka led the way for the Panthers (9-10, 2-6) with 19 points and 14 rebounds. Julian Mackey added 14 points and Corey Stephenson finished with 12 points.<\/p>\n<p>UTEP went into halftime ahead of Florida International 47-39. West put up 14 points in the half. UTEP took the lead for good with 8:08 left in the second half on a 3-pointer from West to make it 69-67.<\/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":"EL PASO, Texas (AP) Jamal West&#8217;s 28 points helped UTEP defeat Florida International 83-77 on Thursday night. West&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8294,28,30,42083,29,54571],"class_list":["post-128838","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\/128838","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=128838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}