{"id":39585,"date":"2025-11-07T12:51:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T12:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/39585\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T12:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T12:51:18","slug":"smu-pulls-away-late-to-beat-texas-am-corpus-christi-69-58-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/39585\/","title":{"rendered":"SMU pulls away late to beat Texas A&#038;M Corpus Christi 69-58"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">DALLAS (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/kevin-miller-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boopie Miller<\/a> scored 14 points, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/samet-yigitoglu-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samet Yigitoglu<\/a> had a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/smu-mustangs-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SMU<\/a> pulled away late to beat Texas A&amp;M Corpus Christi 69-58 on Thursday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">SMU led 49-38 midway through the second half before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/sheldon-williams-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sheldon Williams<\/a> scored seven points during Texas A&amp;M CC&#8217;s 15-4 run that tied it 53-all with 4:19 remaining. Then the Mustangs closed on a 16-5 run, with Jaron Pierre Jr. making a 3-pointer and a pair of free throws, to seal it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">Miller shot just 2 of 14 from the floor but made 10 of 12 free throws to go with six assists. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/corey-washington-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corey Washington<\/a> added 13 points and Pierre finished with 12 points for SMU (1-1). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">Williams scored 14 points and grabbed 17 rebounds to lead Texas A&amp;M Corpus Christi (1-1), which shot 29% (19 of 66) from the floor but hit eight buckets from long range. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/kam-parker-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kam Parker<\/a> chipped in with 12 points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">The Islanders led for most of the first half until a pair of Miller free throws tied it a 25-all with 5:04 to play. Yigitoglu scored 10 first-half points for the Mustangs to help go ahead 32-28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">SMU continues its seven game homestand on Tuesday against Murray State. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">___ Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here and here (AP News mobile app). AP college basketball: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-basketball<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS (AP) \u2014 Boopie Miller scored 14 points, Samet Yigitoglu had a double-double with 12 points and 10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-39585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39585","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=39585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}