{"id":145817,"date":"2026-02-06T07:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/145817\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T07:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:41:08","slug":"jacksonville-state-71-66-western-kentucky-feb-5-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/145817\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville State 71-66 Western Kentucky (Feb 5, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOWLING GREEN, Ky. &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5105645\/iaroslav-niagu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iaroslav Niagu<\/a>&#8216;s 19 points helped Jacksonville State defeat Western Kentucky 71-66 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>              Niagu added 12 rebounds for the Gamecocks (12-10, 7-4 Conference USA). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5312340\/jacoby-hill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacoby Hill<\/a> scored 11 points and added seven rebounds. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5060718\/jaye-nash\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaye Nash<\/a> shot 1 of 2 from the field and 8 for 16 from the line to finish with 10 points.<\/p>\n<p>              The Hilltoppers (12-11, 5-7) were led in scoring by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/4703009\/ryan-myers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Myers<\/a>, who finished with 20 points. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5313163\/lj-hackman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LJ Hackman<\/a> added 17 points for Western Kentucky. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5313164\/armelo-boone\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Armelo Boone<\/a> finished with 11 points.<\/p>\n<p>              Jacksonville State went into halftime ahead of Western Kentucky 33-28. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5312342\/emondrek-erkins-ford\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emondrek Erkins-Ford<\/a> scored eight points in the half. Hill scored the final six points for Jacksonville State.<\/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":"BOWLING GREEN, Ky. &#8212; \u2014 Iaroslav Niagu&#8216;s 19 points helped Jacksonville State defeat Western Kentucky 71-66 on Thursday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-145817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-jacksonville","9":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","10":"tag-jacksonville-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145817","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=145817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}