{"id":73846,"date":"2025-12-03T03:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/73846\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T03:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:31:08","slug":"texas-am-survives-late-rally-from-pittsburgh-for-road-win-in-acc-sec-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/73846\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&#038;M survives late rally from Pittsburgh for road win in ACC\/SEC Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Rashaun Agee scored 21 points and grabbed 13 rebounds to lead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-am-aggies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-am-aggies\/\">Texas A&amp;M<\/a> to an 81-73 victory over Pittsburgh on Tuesday night in the ACC\/SEC Challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Pitt used a 16-0 run to take a 61-57 lead with 6:23 remaining. Damarco Minor and Nojus Indrusaitis each hit a 3-pointer and scored five points during the stretch. The Aggies answered with an 18-3 run, capped by Agee\u2019s 3-pointer, for a 75-65 lead with 1:09 to play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Agee was 7 of 14 from the floor and made 6 of 7 free throws to go with four assists, four steals and two blocks. Ruben Dominguez made four 3-pointers and scored 18 points for Texas A&amp;M (7-2), which has won five straight. Jacari Lane added 14 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Barry Dunning Jr. had 18 points and 12 rebounds for Pitt (5-4). Indrusaitis and Cameron Corhen added 15 points apiece. Minor finished with 14 points.<\/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=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Texas A&amp;M opened on a 10-1 run and led 35-32 at the break. Agee scored 11 first-half points for the Aggies and Dunning scored 10 for Pitt. The Panthers had their first lead, 37-35, about a minute into the second half and didn\u2019t lead again until their late surge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">It was just the just the second meeting between the teams. Pitt won the the previous game, 78-62 in 1985, at the Sugar Bowl Tournament in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Pitt hosts Hofstra on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Texas A&amp;M faces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/smu-mustangs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/smu-mustangs\/\">SMU<\/a> in Arlington, Texas on Sunday.<\/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\/texas-am-aggies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find more Texas A&amp;M coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Rashaun Agee scored 21 points and grabbed 13 rebounds to lead Texas A&amp;M to an 81-73&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1638,3688,154,27,260,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-73846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-brief","9":"tag-colleges","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-am-aggies","13":"tag-texas-headlines","14":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73846","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=73846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}