{"id":118552,"date":"2026-01-11T00:18:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T00:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/118552\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T00:18:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T00:18:32","slug":"mccreary-puts-up-20-as-ut-arlington-beats-abilene-christian-82-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/118552\/","title":{"rendered":"McCreary puts up 20 as UT Arlington beats Abilene Christian 82-72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Led by Marcell McCreary&#8217;s 20 points, the UT Arlington Mavericks defeated the Abilene Christian Wildcats 82-72. Bahsil Laster added 18 point and Casmir Chavis&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>ARLINGTON, Texas(AP) \u2014 Marcell McCreary had 20 points in UT Arlington&#8217;s 82-72 win over Abilene Christian on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>McCreary had six rebounds for the Mavericks (11-5, 3-1 Western Athletic Conference). Bahsil Laster scored 18 points while shooting 4 for 8 (1 for 4 from 3-point range) and 9 of 10 from the free-throw line. Casmir Chavis had 15 points and shot 5 of 10 from the field and 4 of 4 from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n<p>Bradyn Hubbard led the Wildcats (10-7, 2-2) in scoring, finishing with 27 points and three steals. Rich Smith added 15 points, eight assists and three steals for Abilene Christian. Cade Hornecker also had 11 points and three blocks.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Led by Marcell McCreary&#8217;s 20 points, the UT Arlington Mavericks defeated the Abilene Christian Wildcats 82-72. Bahsil Laster&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-118552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118552","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=118552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}