{"id":112359,"date":"2026-01-06T04:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/112359\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T04:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:54:13","slug":"benson-scores-17-in-new-orleans-83-73-win-over-east-texas-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/112359\/","title":{"rendered":"Benson scores 17 in New Orleans&#8217; 83-73 win over East Texas A&#038;M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765946470_425_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/NORL\/new-orleans-privateers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NEW ORLEANS<\/a> (AP)  Coleton Benson scored 17 points, MJ Thomas had 12 points and 19 rebounds, and New Orleans beat <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/TAMC\/east-texas-am-lions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">East Texas A&amp;M<\/a> 83-73 on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Benson shot 3 of 15 from the field, including 1 for 10 from 3-point range, and went 10 for 11 from the free-throw line for the Privateers (6-10, 3-3 Southland Conference). Enzo Boudouma had 11 points and went 4 of 6 from the field (2 for 4 from 3-point range).<\/p>\n<p>Ronnie Harrison Jr. finished with 29 points and 12 rebounds for the Lions (6-10, 1-5). Damian Garcia added 18 points for East Texas A&amp;M. Vinny Sigona also had 12 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":"NEW ORLEANS (AP) Coleton Benson scored 17 points, MJ Thomas had 12 points and 19 rebounds, and New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2692,21418,33734,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-112359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-basketball","tag-east-texas-am-lions","tag-new-orleans-privateers","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}