{"id":180739,"date":"2026-03-06T13:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/180739\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:26:17","slug":"florida-am-takes-down-bethune-cookman-81-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/180739\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida A&#038;M takes down Bethune-Cookman 81-77"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>TALLLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP)  Jaquan Sanders&#8217; 18 points helped <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/FAMU\/florida-am-rattlers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida A&amp;M<\/a> defeat <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/BCU\/bethunecookman-wildcats\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bethune-Cookman<\/a> 81-77 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders had seven rebounds for the Rattlers (14-15, 11-7 Southwestern Athletic Conference). Tyler Shirley shot 5 of 11 from the field and 7 for 8 from the line to add 17 points. Antonio Baker finished with 14 points.<\/p>\n<p>Jakobi Heady finished with 19 points and two steals for the Wildcats (17-14, 14-4). Bethune-Cookman also got 14 points and 10 rebounds off the bench from Ariel Bland. Quentin Heady also had 13 points and two steals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"StatsincCopyright\">\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":"TALLLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) Jaquan Sanders&#8217; 18 points helped Florida A&amp;M defeat Bethune-Cookman 81-77 on Thursday. Sanders had seven&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24446,8294,28,26567,30,29],"class_list":["post-180739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-bethune-cookman-wildcats","tag-college-basketball","tag-florida","tag-florida-am-rattlers","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180739","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=180739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}