{"id":130445,"date":"2026-01-24T16:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T16:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/130445\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T16:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T16:07:09","slug":"florida-am-plays-alcorn-state-after-mccarthys-22-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/130445\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida A&M plays Alcorn State after McCarthy’s 22-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alcorn State Braves (8-9, 5-1 SWAC) at Florida A&M Rattlers<\/a> (5-12, 4-2 SWAC)<\/p>\n

Tallahassee, Florida; Saturday, 4 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Florida A&M hosts Alcorn State after Shaniyah McCarthy<\/a> scored 22 points in Florida A&M’s 68-63 victory over the Jackson State Lady Tigers.<\/p>\n

The Rattlers have gone 4-3 at home. Florida A&M is 2-9 against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n

The Braves are 5-1 against conference opponents. Alcorn State gives up 62.4 points to opponents and has been outscored by 8.8 points per game.<\/p>\n

Florida A&M is shooting 35.4% from the field this season, 4.9 percentage points lower than the 40.3% Alcorn State allows to opponents. Alcorn State averages 53.6 points per game, 19.6 fewer points than the 73.2 Florida A&M allows to opponents.<\/p>\n

The Rattlers and Braves meet Saturday for the first time in conference play this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Aina Subirats<\/a> is shooting 28.1% from beyond the arc with 1.0 made 3-pointers per game for the Rattlers, while averaging 3.9 points. Tahnyjia Purifoy<\/a> is averaging 13.7 points, 4.3 assists and 2.2 steals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Nakia Cheatham<\/a> is scoring 12.5 points per game with 6.4 rebounds and 1.4 assists for the Braves. Kiarra Henderson<\/a> is averaging 8.8 points and 5.2 rebounds while shooting 37.7% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rattlers: 5-5, averaging 62.6 points, 28.7 rebounds, 9.3 assists, 7.4 steals and 2.0 blocks per game while shooting 39.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 65.2 points per game.<\/p>\n

Braves: 6-4, averaging 51.1 points, 30.3 rebounds, 11.4 assists, 9.1 steals and 2.8 blocks per game while shooting 33.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 53.4 points.<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alcorn State Braves (8-9, 5-1 SWAC) at Florida A&M Rattlers (5-12, 4-2 SWAC) Tallahassee, Florida; Saturday, 4 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-130445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-tallahassee","9":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","10":"tag-tallahassee-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130445","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=130445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}