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HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) Veljko Ilic scored 10 of his 18 points in the second half in Sam Houston<\/a>‘s 78-70 win over Wyoming<\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n Ilic shot 5 of 6 from the field and 8 for 8 from the line for the Bearkats (2-2), who shot 29 of 33 from the free-throw line. Isaiah Manning scored 15 points and Damon Nicholas Jr. finished with 11 points.<\/p>\n Leland Walker finished with 24 points, six assists and three steals for the Cowboys (4-1). Wyoming also got 11 points from Nasir Meyer. Abou Magassa had 10 points and six rebounds.<\/p>\n Sam Houston took the lead with 10:42 left in the first half and did not trail again. Manning scored 13 points in the first half to help put the Bearkats ahead 37-32 at the break.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n \n Copyright 2025 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":"HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) Veljko Ilic scored 10 of his 18 points in the second half in Sam Houston‘s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2692,56,58,57,5077,5321],"class_list":{"0":"post-57235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-college-basketball","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-sam-houston-bearkats","13":"tag-wyoming-cowboys"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57235","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=57235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}