{"id":71246,"date":"2025-12-01T08:44:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T08:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/71246\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T08:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T08:44:14","slug":"balanced-xavier-attack-sinks-texas-am-corpus-christi-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/71246\/","title":{"rendered":"Balanced Xavier attack sinks Texas A&#038;M-Corpus Christi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/27695901.jpg\"  alt=\"NCAA Basketball: Texas A&amp;M CC at Xavier\" class=\"w-full\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\"\/>Nov 28, 2025; Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; Texas A&amp;M-Corpus Christi Islanders guard D&#8217;Avian Houston (0) dribbles against Xavier Musketeers guard Roddie Anderson III (0) in the first half at Cintas Center. Mandatory Credit: Katie Stratman-Imagn Images   <\/p>\n<p>It was a total team effort Friday night for Xavier, as 11 players scored in an 88-67 home win over Texas A&amp;M-Corpus Christi in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>Jovan Milicevic, despite picking up four fouls in a limited 17 minutes of action, led the Musketeers (5-3) in scoring with 14 points. He also led the Musketeers with four 3-pointers.<\/p>\n<p>Milicevic was one of four double-digit scorers for Xavier, joined by Filip Borovicanin (10 points), Tre Carroll (11 points) and Anthony Robinson (12 points).<\/p>\n<p>Borovicanin was a beast on the glass, muscling his way to 15 rebounds to lead the Musketeers. Robinson added four offensive rebounds, and the Musketeers finished with eight second-chance points.<\/p>\n<p>The Musketeers were hot from beyond the arc again Friday night, making 12 of 28 3-point attempts.<\/p>\n<p>Xavier also moved the ball around and took advantage of 10 Texas A&amp;M-Corpus Christi turnovers, dishing out 26 assists to just five turnovers and scoring 28 fastbreak points.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>The Islanders (2-5) stayed in the game through the first half and into the second with a methodical approach and high-percentage shots.<\/p>\n<p>Texas A&amp;M-Corpus Christi trailed 43-33 at halftime, but remained in the game, having dished out nine assists with 14 made field goals and only attempting six 3-pointers. They made just 4 of 15 from deep on the night.<\/p>\n<p>D&#8217;Avian Houston led the Islanders with 13 points, while tying with Kam Parker and Cenker Ervan for the team lead with three assists. The Islanders notched 19 assists overall.<\/p>\n<p>Xavier&#8217;s offense got into a rhythm midway through the first half, taking the lead for good, 11-10, at the 12:55 mark with a transition 3-pointer by Isaiah Walker.<\/p>\n<p>The Musketeers carried their offensive momentum from the Charleston Classic into Friday night&#8217;s game, dishing out 12 assists and knocking down eight 3-pointers in the half. Malik Messina-Moore had five of the Musketeers&#8217; assists, while seven different players knocked down a 3-pointer.<\/p>\n<p>Messina-Moore and Borovicanin each had five assists for Xavier overall, while eight different players knocked down a 3-pointer for the Musketeers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov 28, 2025; Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; Texas A&amp;M-Corpus Christi Islanders guard D&#8217;Avian Houston (0) dribbles against Xavier Musketeers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-71246","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\/71246","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=71246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}