{"id":91903,"date":"2025-12-21T23:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/91903\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:40:06","slug":"xavier-edmonds-scores-21-points-leads-tcu-over-florida-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/91903\/","title":{"rendered":"Xavier Edmonds scores 21 points, leads TCU over Florida A&#038;M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">FORT WORTH, Texas \u2014 Xavier Edmonds scored 21 points in 20 minutes, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/tcu-horned-frogs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/tcu-horned-frogs\/\">TCU<\/a> turned a tight game into a rout after halftime to beat Florida A&amp;M 80-56 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The Horned Frogs (9-3) outscored Florida A&amp;M 56-28 in the second half to pull away after trailing 28-24 at the break. TCU finished with a 43-25 rebounding advantage and shot 19 of 22 (86%) from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Tanner Toolson, making his first start since transferring from Utah Valley, added six points and seven rebounds and helped set the tone on the glass as TCU controlled second-chance opportunities throughout the second half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">David Punch added 10 points and eight rebounds, while RJ Jones scored 14 points off the bench, hitting 4 of 8 from 3-point range. Brock Harding finished with seven assists as TCU dished out assists on 18 second-half baskets.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Roundup<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest D-FW sports news, analysis and opinion delivered straight to your inbox. Plus, Kevin Sherrington&#8217;s A La Carte.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Florida A&amp;M (3-7) was led by Jaquan Sanders, who scored 16 points and added five assists. Tyler Shirley chipped in 13 points, but the Rattlers shot just 29% from 3-point range and 7 of 15 (47%) at the free-throw line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">TCU shot 42% overall and used its depth and physicality to turn a four-point halftime deficit into a four-game winning streak.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">TCU continues a five-game homestand against Jackson State on Dec. 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Florida A&amp;M travels to Georgia Tech on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/tcu-horned-frogs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/tcu-horned-frogs\/\">Find more TCU coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH, Texas \u2014 Xavier Edmonds scored 21 points in 20 minutes, and TCU turned a tight game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1111,20228,28,30,29,110,6794],"class_list":{"0":"post-91903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-article","9":"tag-colleges","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-headlines","12":"tag-florida-news","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tcu-horned-frogs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91903","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=91903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}