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RUSTON, La. (AP) Corey Stephenson’s 21 points helped Florida International<\/a> defeat Louisiana Tech<\/a> 84-76 on Saturday.<\/p>\n Stephenson shot 7 for 14 (4 for 7 from 3-point range) and 3 of 4 from the free-throw line for the Panthers (14-15, 7-11 Conference USA). Zawdie Jackson scored 17 points while shooting 3 for 8 (2 for 4 from 3-point range) and 9 of 9 from the free-throw line. Julian Mackey shot 5 for 11, including 5 for 8 from beyond the arc to finish with 16 points. Eric Dibami had 12 points, 10 rebounds, six assists and three steals.<\/p>\n Jaylen Fenner led the way for the Bulldogs (16-13, 9-9) with 25 points, seven rebounds and two steals. DJ Dudley added 20 points for Louisiana Tech. Avery Thomas also had 10 points and seven rebounds.<\/p>\n Florida International entered halftime up 41-40. Eric Dibami paced the team in scoring in the first half with nine points. Florida International used a 14-0 second-half run to erase a seven-point deficit and gave them the lead at 66-59 with 7:30 remaining in the half. Stephenson scored 17 second-half points.<\/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":"RUSTON, La. (AP) Corey Stephenson’s 21 points helped Florida International defeat Louisiana Tech 84-76 on Saturday. Stephenson shot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8294,28,30,42083,29,3733],"class_list":["post-173351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-college-basketball","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-international-panthers","tag-florida-news","tag-louisiana-tech-bulldogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173351","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=173351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}