{"id":108133,"date":"2026-01-22T03:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T03:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/108133\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T03:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T03:32:22","slug":"watfords-23-lead-queens-past-north-alabama-87-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/108133\/","title":{"rendered":"Watford&#8217;s 23 lead Queens past North Alabama 87-62"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769052742_607_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP)  Jordan Watford&#8217;s 23 points helped Queens defeat <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/NALAB\/north-alabama-lions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North Alabama<\/a> 87-62 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Watford shot 7 of 10 from the field and 8 of 8 from the free-throw line for the Royals (12-8, 7-0 Atlantic Sun Conference). Yoav Berman added 20 points while shooting 8 for 16. Avantae Parker had 18 points and shot 7 of 8 from the field and 4 for 4 from the line. The Royals picked up their seventh straight victory.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions (6-12, 1-6) were led in scoring by Kevin de Kovachich, who finished with 15 points. Corneilous Williams added 12 points and Canin Jefferson had 11 points.<\/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":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Jordan Watford&#8217;s 23 points helped Queens defeat North Alabama 87-62 on Wednesday. Watford shot 7&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[3361,9,24,48751,63,122,124,123,16659],"class_list":["post-108133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-college-basketball","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-north-alabama-lions","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-queens-university-royals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}