{"id":617106,"date":"2026-02-22T05:09:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T05:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/617106\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T05:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T05:09:22","slug":"thomas-has-19-as-new-orleans-takes-down-lamar-77-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/617106\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas has 19 as New Orleans takes down Lamar 77-71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771454089_143_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>BEAUMONT, Texas (AP)  MJ Thomas had 19 points in <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/NORL\/new-orleans-privateers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans<\/a>&#8216; 77-71 victory against <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/LAMAR\/lamar-cardinals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lamar<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas also contributed eight rebounds for the Privateers (14-15, 11-8 Southland Conference). Coleton Benson shot 3 of 10 from the field, including 3 for 8 from 3-point range, and went 5 for 6 from the free-throw line to add 14 points. TJ Cope shot 4 of 6 from the field and 3 for 5 from the line to finish with 11 points.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Holifield led the way for the Cardinals (12-16, 7-12) with 14 points and nine rebounds. Lamar also got 14 points and eight rebounds from Errol White. Eian Lowe also had 13 points and four assists.<\/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":"BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) MJ Thomas had 19 points in New Orleans&#8216; 77-71 victory against Lamar on Saturday night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,35142,231,772,1544,27296],"class_list":["post-617106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-lamar-cardinals","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaab","tag-new-orleans-privateers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116112561117391476","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}