{"id":501119,"date":"2026-01-08T10:34:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/501119\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T10:34:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:34:23","slug":"jacoby-hill-scores-19-as-jacksonville-state-takes-down-florida-international-71-64-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/501119\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacoby Hill scores 19 as Jacksonville State takes down Florida International 71-64"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>JACKSONVILLE, Ala. (AP)  Jacoby Hill scored 19 points as <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/JAXST\/jacksonville-state-gamecocks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jacksonville State<\/a> beat <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/FIU\/florida-international-panthers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida International<\/a> 71-64 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Hill finished 8 of 10 from the field for the Gamecocks (8-7, 3-1 Conference USA). Mostapha El Moutaouakkil scored 18 points and added six rebounds. Emondrek Erkins-Ford shot 1 of 2 from the field and 8 for 9 from the line to finish with 10 points.<\/p>\n<p>Zawdie Jackson led the way for the Panthers (9-6, 2-2) with 19 points and two steals. Florida International also got 17 points from Corey Stephenson. Ashton Williamson put up 10 points, four assists and two steals.<\/p>\n<p>A 20-2 run in the first half gave Jacksonville State a six-point lead. The teams entered the break with Jacksonville State ahead 31-25, while El Moutaouakkil led their club in scoring with eight points. Jacksonville State used a 12-0 second-half run to come back from a three-point deficit and take the lead at 53-44 with 9:36 left in the half before finishing off the victory. Hill scored 14 second-half points.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"StatsincCopyright\">\n    Copyright 2026 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":"JACKSONVILLE, Ala. (AP) Jacoby Hill scored 19 points as Jacksonville State beat Florida International 71-64 on Wednesday. Hill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":498696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,2076,3188,723,224833,7310,103336,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-501119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-fl","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-florida-international-panthers","13":"tag-jacksonville","14":"tag-jacksonville-state-gamecocks","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115859034348460950","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}