{"id":167747,"date":"2026-02-17T05:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/167747\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T05:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:12:11","slug":"wysinger-mortle-rally-texas-southern-to-74-73-victory-over-southern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/167747\/","title":{"rendered":"Wysinger, Mortle rally Texas Southern to 74-73 victory over Southern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770874211_627_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>HOUSTON (AP)  Jaylen Wysinger scored 28 points, including a pair of go-ahead free throws with two seconds left, and Zytarious Mortle posted a double-double to rally <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/STHRN\/southern-jaguars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas <\/a>&#8221; data-canon=&#8221;Texas Southern Tigers&#8221; data-type=&#8221;SPORTS_OBJECT_TEAM&#8221; data-league-abbreviation=&#8221;NCAAB&#8221; data-team-abbreviation=&#8221;TEXSO&#8221;&gt;Texas Southern to a 74-73 victory over Southern on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Wysinger made a layup with 23 seconds remaining to get Texas Southern within a point before hitting the winning foul shots.<\/p>\n<p>Wysinger added seven rebounds and three steals for the Tigers (9-15, 7-6 Southwestern Athletic Conference). Mortle totaled 25 points and 11 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>AJ Barnes led the Jaguars (12-14, 8-5) with 16 points and eight rebounds. Terrance Dixon Jr. contributed 15 points and six rebounds, while Fazl Oshodi scored 13.<\/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) Jaylen Wysinger scored 28 points, including a pair of go-ahead free throws with two seconds left,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2692,39018,27,29,28,20703],"class_list":["post-167747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-basketball","tag-southern-jaguars","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-southern-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167747","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=167747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}