{"id":44639,"date":"2025-11-11T08:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/44639\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T08:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:30:10","slug":"tcu-pulls-away-late-avoids-upset-vs-lamar-on-coach-jamie-dixons-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/44639\/","title":{"rendered":"TCU pulls away late, avoids upset vs. Lamar on coach Jamie Dixon\u2019s birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">FORT WORTH \u2014 Jayden Pierre scored 18 points for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/tcu-horned-frogs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/tcu-horned-frogs\/\">TCU<\/a> in a 78-65 win over Lamar on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">David Punch, Xavier Edmonds and Jace Posey each added 12 points for the Horned Frogs (2-1).<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">TCU took a 10-2 lead in the first three minutes of the game, but Lamar (1-1) responded to trail 39-38 at the half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Back-to-back steals in the second half turned into baskets by Punch and Pierre to make it 60-56. TCU made eight of their final 10 shots to close out the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Roundup<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest D-FW sports news, analysis and opinion delivered straight to your inbox. Plus, Kevin Sherrington&#8217;s A La Carte.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Horned Frogs\u2019 head coach Jamie Dixon turned 60, making him 4-0 on games he coaches on his birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Rob Lee Jr. scored 26 to lead the Cardinals. Jayden Barrs added 14 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/college-sports\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find more college sports coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/tcu-horned-frogs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find more TCU coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH \u2014 Jayden Pierre scored 18 points for TCU in a 78-65 win over Lamar on Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[732,3688,116,118,117,154,783],"class_list":["post-44639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-article","tag-colleges","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-sports","tag-tcu-horned-frogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44639","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=44639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}