{"id":158224,"date":"2026-02-10T10:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/158224\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:34:11","slug":"new-orleans-84-78-texas-am-corpus-christi-feb-9-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/158224\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans 84-78 Texas A&#038;M-Corpus Christi (Feb 9, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW ORLEANS &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5108082\/jakevion-buckley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jakevion Buckley<\/a> scored 22 points to help New Orleans defeat Texas A&amp;M-Corpus Christi 84-78 in overtime on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>              Buckley shot 5 of 12 from the field and 12 of 14 from the free-throw line for the Privateers (12-14, 9-7 Southland Conference). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5108809\/coleton-benson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coleton Benson<\/a> added 18 points and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5313575\/tj-cope\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TJ Cope<\/a> pitched in with 16 points and six rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>              The Islanders (13-12, 9-7) were led by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5243128\/sheldon-williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sheldon Williams<\/a> with 20 points and 10 rebounds. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5314703\/kobi-pearson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kobi Pearson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5111902\/franck-yetna\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Franck Yetna<\/a> both scored 10.<\/p>\n<p>              Buckley forced OT when he drove for a layup with 25 seconds left, tying it 67-all. Benson hit a 3-pointer to open the scoring in the extra period and the Privateers never trailed after that.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS &#8212; \u2014 Jakevion Buckley scored 22 points to help New Orleans defeat Texas A&amp;M-Corpus Christi 84-78&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-158224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158224","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=158224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}