{"id":137305,"date":"2026-01-25T06:32:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T06:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/137305\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T06:32:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T06:32:24","slug":"ut-rio-grande-valley-wins-68-51-over-houston-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/137305\/","title":{"rendered":"UT Rio Grande Valley wins 68-51 over Houston Christian"},"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>HOUSTON (AP)  Marvin McGhee&#8217;s 17 points helped UT Rio Grande Valley defeat <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/HOUBP\/houston-christian-huskies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Christian<\/a> 68-51 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>McGhee also contributed six rebounds for the Vaqueros (9-11, 5-6 Southland Conference). Koree Cotton went 7 of 12 from the field (2 for 4 from 3-point range) to add 16 points. Filip Brankovic shot 4 for 8, including 2 for 3 from beyond the arc to finish with 12 points.<\/p>\n<p>Demarco Bethea led the way for the Huskies (7-13, 3-8) with 14 points, 10 rebounds and two steals. D&#8217;Aundre Samuels added 12 points for Houston Christian.<\/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":"HOUSTON (AP) Marvin McGhee&#8217;s 17 points helped UT Rio Grande Valley defeat Houston Christian 68-51 on Saturday. McGhee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2692,56,20675,58,57,32639],"class_list":{"0":"post-137305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-college-basketball","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-christian-huskies","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-utrgv-vaqueros"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137305","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=137305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137305\/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=137305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}