{"id":87099,"date":"2026-01-02T04:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/87099\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T04:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:11:17","slug":"queens-takes-down-eastern-kentucky-91-89-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/87099\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens takes down Eastern Kentucky 91-89"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766119390_86_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP)  Jordan Watford scored 17 points off the bench as Queens beat <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/EKY\/eastern-kentucky-colonels\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eastern Kentucky<\/a> 91-89 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Watford shot 6 of 10 from the field and 5 for 5 from the line for the Royals (6-8, 1-0 Atlantic Sun Conference). Avantae Parker added 16 points while shooting 6 of 7 from the field and 4 for 9 from the line while they also had eight rebounds. Yoav Berman went 6 of 9 from the field to finish with 14 points.<\/p>\n<p>MJ Williams led the Colonels (4-10, 0-1) in scoring, finishing with 18 points and four assists. Montavious Myrick added 16 points and seven rebounds for Eastern Kentucky. Turner Buttry recorded 14 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 scored 17 points off the bench as Queens beat Eastern Kentucky 91-89 on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[3361,42038,9,24,63,122,124,123,16659],"class_list":["post-87099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-college-basketball","tag-eastern-kentucky-colonels","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","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\/87099","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=87099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}