CINCINNATI \u2014 Toronto’s Jovan Milicevic scored 14 points as Xavier beat Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 88-67 on Friday.<\/p>\n
Milicevic shot five for 11, including four for eight from beyond the arc for the Musketeers (5-3). <\/p>\n
The six-foot-10 Milicevic is averaging nearly 14 points a game for Xavier after transferring from New Mexico following his freshman season last year.<\/p>\n
Anthony Robinson scored 12 points and added eight rebounds. Tre Carroll finished with 11 points.<\/p>\n
The Islanders (2-5) were led by D’Avian Houston, who posted 13 points. Nick Shogbonyo added nine points and nine rebounds for Texas A&M-CC. Sheldon Williams also had nine points.<\/p>\n
Xavier took the lead with 12:55 left in the first half and did not trail again. Carroll led the Musketeers with seven points in the first half to help put them up 43-33 at the break. Xavier extended its lead to 53-33 during the second half, fueled by a 20-3 scoring run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI \u2014 Toronto’s Jovan Milicevic scored 14 points as Xavier beat Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 88-67 on Friday. Milicevic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-69116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69116","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=69116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}