{"id":118581,"date":"2026-01-11T00:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T00:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/118581\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T00:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T00:55:09","slug":"thomas-hits-3-at-buzzer-to-lift-northwestern-state-over-texas-am-corpus-christi-79-78-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/118581\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas hits 3 at buzzer to lift Northwestern State over Texas A&#038;M-Corpus Christi 79-78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>NATCHITOCHES, La. (AP)  Micah Thomas scored 20 points that included a 3-pointer at the buzzer as <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/NWST\/northwestern-state-demons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Northwestern State<\/a> beat <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/TXAMCC\/texas-amcorpus-christi-islanders\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas A&amp;M-Corpus Christi<\/a> 79-78 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas shot 7 of 12 from the field and 4 for 4 from the line for the Demons (5-11, 3-4 Southland Conference). Izzy Miles shot 6 of 9 from the field, including 2 for 3 from 3-point range, and went 3 for 4 from the line to add 17 points. J.C. Riley shot 5 of 5 from the field and 3 of 3 from the free-throw line to finish with 13 points.<\/p>\n<p>Mason Gibson finished with 14 points for the Islanders (8-8, 4-3). Sheldon Williams added 12 points for Texas A&amp;M-CC. Franck Yetna 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":"NATCHITOCHES, La. (AP) Micah Thomas scored 20 points that included a 3-pointer at the buzzer as Northwestern State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2692,155,157,156,21852,23635],"class_list":["post-118581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-college-basketball","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-northwestern-state-demons","tag-texas-am-corpus-christi-islanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118581","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=118581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}