{"id":167816,"date":"2026-02-17T06:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/167816\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T06:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:24:13","slug":"mara-posts-double-double-to-lead-houston-christian-to-72-68-victory-over-nicholls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/167816\/","title":{"rendered":"Mara posts double-double to lead Houston Christian to 72-68 victory over Nicholls"},"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)  Mambourou Mara had 15 points and 13 rebounds to lead <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/HOUBP\/houston-christian-huskies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Christian<\/a> to a 72-68 victory over <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/NICHST\/nicholls-colonels\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicholls<\/a> on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Mara also blocked three shots for the Huskies (10-17, 6-12 Southland Conference). Demarco Bethea added 15 points and six rebounds. Kylin Green shot 1 of 8 from the field and 10 of 11 from the free-throw line to finish with 12 points.<\/p>\n<p>Trae English led the way for the Colonels (11-16, 10-8) with 17 points, six rebounds and six assists. Jaylen Searles added 14 points. Jalik Dunkley had a double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds.<\/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) Mambourou Mara had 15 points and 13 rebounds to lead Houston Christian to a 72-68 victory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2692,56,20675,58,57,20674],"class_list":["post-167816","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-nicholls-colonels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167816","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=167816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167816\/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=167816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}