{"id":160764,"date":"2026-02-19T03:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/160764\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T03:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:45:08","slug":"eagles-notch-fifth-straight-home-win-in-86-84-triumph-over-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/160764\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles notch fifth straight home win in 86-84 triumph over Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2013 Florida Gulf Coast men&#8217;s basketball (13-15, 7-8 ASUN) held off a late Jacksonville rally to earn its fifth straight home win, 86-84, over the Dolphins (10-18, 5-10) on Wednesday at Alico Arena.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fgcuathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/isaiah-malone\/10224\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10224\" target=\"_blank\">Isaiah Malone<\/a> scored a career high 24 points, including an emphatic poster dunk, and surpassed Kyle Marks for the second-most blocks in a single season by an Eagle with 53. <a href=\"https:\/\/fgcuathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/rahmir-barno\/10213\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10213\" target=\"_blank\">Rahmir Barno<\/a> added 16 points on 7-for-9 shooting from the field, and FGCU got double-digit games from all five starters in the win.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LOOK OUT \ud83d\ude31<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Isaiah00Malone?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Isaiah00Malone<\/a> x <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SCTop10?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#SCTop10<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ATTITUDE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#ATTITUDE<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WingsUp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#WingsUp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hC5qZHzjxV\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/hC5qZHzjxV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FGCU Men&#8217;s Hoops (@FGCU_MBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FGCU_MBB\/status\/2024292293193183549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 19, 2026<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis story will be updated.<br \/>\n                    Read Full Article<br \/>\n                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2013 Florida Gulf Coast men&#8217;s basketball (13-15, 7-8 ASUN) held off a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-160764","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\/160764","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=160764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}