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MIAMI (AP) Mostapha El Moutaouakkil led Jacksonville State<\/a> with 31 points and Jacoby Hill sealed the victory with a jump shot with two seconds remaining as the Gamecocks knocked off Florida International<\/a> 78-74 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n El Moutaouakkil had five rebounds and four steals for the Gamecocks (11-9, 6-3 Conference USA). Hill scored 15 points and added five rebounds. Emondrek Erkins-Ford shot 3 of 6 from the field and 4 for 6 from the free-throw line to finish with 10 points.<\/p>\n Corey Stephenson led the way for the Panthers (10-11, 3-7) with 20 points, six rebounds and four steals. Julian Mackey added 14 points for Florida International. Larry Olayinka had nine points.<\/p>\n El Moutaouakkil scored nine points in the first half and Jacksonville State went into the break trailing 32-24. El Moutaouakkil scored a team-high 22 points for Jacksonville State in the second half. Jacksonville State outscored Florida International by 12 points over the final half.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n \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) Mostapha El Moutaouakkil led Jacksonville State with 31 points and Jacoby Hill sealed the victory with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8294,42083,116,118,117,4642],"class_list":["post-135923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-college-basketball","tag-florida-international-panthers","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-state-gamecocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135923","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=135923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135923\/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=135923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}