{"id":92324,"date":"2025-12-22T11:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/92324\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T11:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:33:10","slug":"edmonds-21-points-help-tcu-beat-florida-am-80-56-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/92324\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonds&#8217; 21 points help TCU beat Florida A&#038;M 80-56"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/xavier-edmonds-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xavier Edmonds<\/a> scored 21 points in 20 minutes, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/tcu-horned-frogs-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TCU<\/a> turned a tight game into a rout after halftime to beat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/florida-am-rattlers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida A&amp;M<\/a> 80-56 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">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=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/tanner-toolson-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tanner Toolson<\/a>, 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=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/david-punch-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Punch<\/a> added 10 points and eight rebounds, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/rj-jones-4-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RJ Jones<\/a> scored 14 points off the bench, hitting 4 of 8 from 3-point range. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/brock-harding-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brock Harding<\/a> finished with seven assists as TCU dished out assists on 18 second-half baskets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Florida A&amp;M (3-7) was led by Jaquan Sanders, who scored 16 points and added five assists. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/tyler-shirley-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Shirley<\/a> 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=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">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=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">TCU continues a five-game homestand against Jackson State on Dec. 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Florida A&amp;M travels to Georgia Tech on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">___ Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here and here (AP News mobile app). AP college basketball: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-basketball<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) \u2014 Xavier Edmonds scored 21 points in 20 minutes, and TCU turned a tight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-92324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92324","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=92324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}