{"id":148658,"date":"2026-02-03T05:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/148658\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T05:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:24:15","slug":"brankovic-scores-17-as-ut-rio-grande-valley-downs-houston-christian-74-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/148658\/","title":{"rendered":"Brankovic scores 17 as UT Rio Grande Valley downs Houston Christian 74-57"},"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\/1769891651_207_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>EDINBURG, Texas (AP)  Filip Brankovic scored 17 points as UT Rio Grande Valley beat <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/HOUBP\/houston-christian-huskies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Christian<\/a> 74-57 on Monday night to up its win streak to six.<\/p>\n<p>Brankovic also had five rebounds for the Vaqueros (12-11, 8-6 Southland Conference). Koree Cotton and Julien Gomez both finished with 12 points and six rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>The Huskies (8-15, 4-10) were led by Demari Williams with 18 points. Ryan Bartley had 12 points and D&#8217;Aundre Samuels chipped in with 10 points, six rebounds and two blocks.<\/p>\n<p>UT Rio Grande Valley took the lead with 18:17 left in the first half and did not trail again. Gomez led their team in scoring with 12 points in the first half to help put them up 45-28 at the break.<\/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":"EDINBURG, Texas (AP) Filip Brankovic scored 17 points as UT Rio Grande Valley beat Houston Christian 74-57 on&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-148658","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\/148658","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=148658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148658\/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=148658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}