{"id":139533,"date":"2026-01-27T06:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/139533\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T06:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:09:11","slug":"utrgv-gets-revenge-road-win-against-islanders-in-south-texas-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/139533\/","title":{"rendered":"UTRGV gets revenge road win against Islanders in South Texas Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Texas A&amp;M-Corpus Christi Islanders (11-10, 7-5) men&#8217;s basketball split their South Texas Showdown rivalry season series with UTRGV (10-11, 6-6) after falling 64-55 on Monday at the Hilliard Center.<\/p>\n<p>The Islanders got out out a quick 4-0 start, but then UTRGV found their groove and took over the lead 15-14 with 7:06 left in the first half. Nick Shogbonyo led the Islanders with 12 points. He went 2-4 from 3-point range. Vaqueroes&#8217; Julien Gomez led the floor with 19 points.<\/p>\n<p>UTRGV dominated the paint, scoring 28 points versus Corpus Christi&#8217;s 18. The Islanders scored the majority of their points at the free throw line, going 26-41 at 63 percent. That was also the difference maker as the Vaqueros went 18-25 making 72 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The Islanders are home again on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. against Houston Christian University. On Jan. 5 Corpus Christi beat HCU 81-65.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the los TAMU-CC is still near the top of the Southland Conference Standings, sitting fourth just one spot ahead of UTRGV.<\/p>\n<p>SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE STANDINGS<br \/>SFA (10-2)<br \/>McNeese (9-1)<br \/>Nicholls (7-4)<br \/>TAMU-CC (7-5)<br \/>UTRGV (6-6)<br \/>Lamar (5-6)<br \/>New Orleans (5-6)<br \/>Northwestern State (4-6)<br \/>UIW (4-7)<br \/>East Texas A&amp;M (3-7)<br \/>HCU (3-8)<br \/>Southeastern (3-8)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Texas A&amp;M-Corpus Christi Islanders (11-10, 7-5) men&#8217;s basketball split their South Texas Showdown rivalry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[13723,1770,155,157,156,18827,58895,9891,9552,35340,18829,18824,18825],"class_list":["post-139533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-13723","tag-basketball","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-islanders","tag-julien-gomez","tag-men","tag-mens","tag-nick-shogbonyo","tag-south-texas-showdown","tag-utrgv","tag-vaqueros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139533","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=139533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}