{"id":74927,"date":"2025-12-07T23:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T23:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/74927\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T23:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T23:33:10","slug":"vanterpool-scores-24-as-florida-atlantic-beats-fgcu-81-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/74927\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanterpool scores 24 as Florida Atlantic beats FGCU 81-76"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP)  Devin Vanterpool&#8217;s 24 points helped <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/FAU\/florida-atlantic-owls\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Atlantic<\/a> defeat <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/FGC\/florida-gulf-coast-eagles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Gulf Coast<\/a> 81-76 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Vanterpool also contributed eight rebounds for the Owls (6-3). Josiah Parker added 16 points while going 7 of 8 and 2 of 4 from the free-throw line while they also had five rebounds. Isaiah Elohim had 11 points and shot 5 for 11, including 1 for 4 from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n<p>Rahmir Barno finished with 21 points and three steals for the Eagles (5-5). J.R. Konieczny added 17 points, eight rebounds and two steals for FGCU. Jordan Ellerbee also recorded 13 points, five assists and two steals.<\/p>\n<p>Vanterpool scored 11 points in the first half and Florida Atlantic went into halftime trailing 37-36. Parker scored 16 points in the second half.<\/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 2025 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":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) Devin Vanterpool&#8217;s 24 points helped Florida Atlantic defeat Florida Gulf Coast 81-76 on Sunday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8294,28,9944,26228,30,29],"class_list":["post-74927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-college-basketball","tag-florida","tag-florida-atlantic-owls","tag-florida-gulf-coast-eagles","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74927","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=74927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}