{"id":133015,"date":"2026-01-22T04:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T04:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/133015\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T04:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T04:54:11","slug":"king-scores-23-as-sam-houston-takes-down-kennesaw-state-93-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/133015\/","title":{"rendered":"King scores 23 as Sam Houston takes down Kennesaw State 93-87"},"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\/1768971611_696_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP)  Po&#8217;Boigh King scored 23 points as <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/SAMHOU\/sam-houston-bearkats\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Houston<\/a> beat <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/KENSAW\/kennesaw-state-owls\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kennesaw State<\/a> 93-87 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>King shot 8 for 15 (3 for 6 from 3-point range) and 4 of 5 from the free-throw line for the Bearkats (12-7, 4-4 Conference USA). Damon Nicholas Jr. shot 6 for 10, including 3 for 4 from beyond the arc to add 15 points. Veljko Ilic shot 6 of 10 from the field to finish with 12 points.<\/p>\n<p>RJ Johnson finished with 32 points and five assists for the Owls (12-7, 4-4). Braedan Lue added 18 points and seven rebounds for Kennesaw State. Trey Simpson had 17 points and two blocks.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Houston used a 16-3 run in the second half to build a 15-point lead at 67-52 with 10:56 left in the half.<\/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":"HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) Po&#8217;Boigh King scored 23 points as Sam Houston beat Kennesaw State 93-87 on Wednesday night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2692,56,58,57,56916,5077],"class_list":["post-133015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-college-basketball","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-kennesaw-state-owls","tag-sam-houston-bearkats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133015","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=133015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133015\/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=133015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}