{"id":140919,"date":"2026-01-28T07:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/140919\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T07:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:33:12","slug":"houston-christian-secures-81-75-victory-against-incarnate-word-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/140919\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Christian secures 81-75 victory against Incarnate Word"},"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)  Demari Williams&#8217; 24 points helped <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/HOUBP\/houston-christian-huskies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Christian<\/a> defeat <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/UIW\/incarnate-word-cardinals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Incarnate Word<\/a> 81-75 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Williams added six rebounds for the Huskies (8-13, 4-8 Southland Conference). Trent Johnson scored 20 points and added five rebounds. Demarco Bethea finished 6 of 14 from the floor to finish with 12 points, while adding eight rebounds and three steals.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Pyke led the way for the Cardinals (9-12, 4-8) with 27 points, eight rebounds and three blocks. Tahj Staveskie added 16 points and four assists for Incarnate Word. Harrison Reede had 10 points and two steals.<\/p>\n<p>Williams scored eight points in the first half and Houston Christian went into halftime trailing 41-31. Williams scored 16 points in the second 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":"HOUSTON (AP) Demari Williams&#8217; 24 points helped Houston Christian defeat Incarnate Word 81-75 on Tuesday. Williams added six&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2692,56,20675,58,57,29178],"class_list":["post-140919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-college-basketball","tag-houston","tag-houston-christian-huskies","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-incarnate-word-cardinals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140919","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=140919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140919\/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=140919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}