{"id":118962,"date":"2026-01-11T11:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T11:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/118962\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T11:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T11:54:12","slug":"thomas-hits-3-at-buzzer-to-lift-northwestern-state-over-texas-am-corpus-christi-79-78-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/118962\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas hits 3 at buzzer to lift Northwestern State over Texas A&#038;M-Corpus Christi 79-78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Micah Thomas scores 20 points, including a buzzer-beating 3-pointer, as Northwestern State beats Texas A&amp;M-Corpus Christi 79-78 on Saturday. Thomas shoots 7 of 12&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>NATCHITOCHES, La.(AP) \u2014 Micah Thomas scored 20 points that included a 3-pointer at the buzzer as Northwestern State beat Texas A&amp;M-Corpus Christi 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>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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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":"Micah Thomas scores 20 points, including a buzzer-beating 3-pointer, as Northwestern State beats Texas A&amp;M-Corpus Christi 79-78 on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-118962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118962","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=118962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}