{"id":145789,"date":"2026-01-31T22:37:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/145789\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T22:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:37:30","slug":"mens-basketball-drops-road-game-at-texas-state-81-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/145789\/","title":{"rendered":"Men’s Basketball Drops Road Game At Texas State, 81-64"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN MARCOS, Texas \u2013 Old Dominion men\u2019s basketball could not overcome another slow start as the Monarchs dropped their Sun Belt road game at Texas State, 81-64 on Saturday afternoon at Strahan Arena.<\/p>\n

KC Shaw<\/a> led ODU with a 20-point, 11-rebound double-double, adding one assist, one steal, and one block to his final stats line. Jordan Battle<\/a> added 16 points, 12 of them in the first half, while knocking down five three-pointers. Jared Turner<\/a> contributed seven points with three boards, two assists, and two blocks.<\/p>\n

The Monarchs (7-16, 4-7 Sun Belt) shot 32.8% (20-for-61) from the field, including 22.2% (6-for-27) from beyond the arc, and 81.8% (18-for-22) at the free-throw line.<\/p>\n

Texas State\u2019s DJ Hall opened the scoring with back-to-back threes before Battle answered with one of his own. Another triple by the Norfolk native narrowed the gap, 10-6 at the 17:17 mark, but the Bobcats (13-11, 6-6) scored seven unanswered points for a 17-6 lead. Zacch Wiggins<\/a> halted the run with a layup, Turner followed with a three-pointer, and Donovan Raymond<\/a> went 2-for-2 at the free-throw line to get the Monarchs back to within four, 17-13 with 11:44 left in the opening half.<\/p>\n

An LJ Thomas<\/a> floater in the paint and a steal and layup by Raymond trimmed the Bobcat lead to 21-17 with 9:54 on the clock, but TXST took off again with a 10-0 push. Shaw made a couple of layups and Battle hit a pair of threes in the final two minutes as ODU went into the locker room trailing, 42-33.<\/p>\n

Texas State put together a 13-0 run early in the second half, extending their lead to 20, 55-35 at the 15:44 mark. Battle\u2019s fifth three-pointer of the day and a made basket by Shaw cut the deficit to 13, 65-52 with 6:48 left. Down the stretch, TXST\u2019s Robert Fields and Hall combined for a 7-0 run as the Bobcats went back up by 20, 76-56 at the 2:54 mark. Shaw scored another six points and Turner added a tip-in to whittle the Bobcat lead down to 15, 79-64 with one minute left. Hall then rounded out the scoring with a couple of free throws with 33 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n

Up Next<\/p>\n

The Monarchs will open a five-game homestand next Wednesday, Feb. 4 when they host the ULM Warhawks for a 7 p.m. game at Chartway Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN MARCOS, Texas \u2013 Old Dominion men\u2019s basketball could not overcome another slow start as the Monarchs dropped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33406,33405,33409,33407,33403,33408,10528,33404,33410,33411,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-145789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-monarchs","tag-odu","tag-odu-athletics","tag-odu-monarchs","tag-old-dominion","tag-old-dominion-athletics","tag-old-dominion-monarchs","tag-old-dominion-university","tag-old-dominion-university-athletics","tag-old-dominion-university-monarchs","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145789","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=145789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}