{"id":130769,"date":"2026-01-24T23:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T23:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/130769\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T23:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T23:22:07","slug":"jacksonville-81-76-eastern-kentucky-jan-24-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/130769\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville 81-76 Eastern Kentucky (Jan 24, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/4683768\/chris-lockett-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Lockett Jr<\/a>.&#8217;s 25 points helped Jacksonville defeat Eastern Kentucky 81-76 in overtime on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>              Lockett added three steals for the Dolphins (8-13, 3-5 Atlantic Sun Conference). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5179287\/donovan-rivers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donovan Rivers<\/a> scored 17 points, going 6 of 10 and 5 of 7 from the free-throw line. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5313678\/evan-sterck\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Evan Sterck<\/a> had 16 points and shot 5 of 7 from the field and 6 for 6 from the line.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/4898333\/montavious-myrick\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Montavious Myrick<\/a> led the way for the Colonels (7-14, 3-5) with 17 points and six rebounds. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5313634\/mj-williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MJ Williams<\/a> added 12 points for Eastern Kentucky. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5242400\/juan-cranford-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Juan Cranford Jr<\/a>. had 11 points.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. &#8212; \u2014 Chris Lockett Jr.&#8217;s 25 points helped Jacksonville defeat Eastern Kentucky 81-76 in overtime on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-130769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130769","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=130769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}