{"id":423655,"date":"2024-11-30T00:32:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T00:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=423655"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Santa-Clara-swamps-TCU-in-Acrisure-Invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Santa-Clara-swamps-TCU-in-Acrisure-Invitational\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Clara swamps TCU in Acrisure Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Stewart Jr. poured in 18 points while shooting 8-for-9 from the floor to lead Santa Clara to a 69-52 win over TCU on Thursday afternoon in a first-round game in the Acrisure Invitational in Palm Desert, Calif. The Broncos (3-4) advanced to play Washington in the championship game on Friday afternoon. The Horned Frogs (4-2) will compete in the third-place game against Colorado State. Elijah Mahi added 13 points for Santa Clara, while Camaron Tongue hit for 11. The Broncos outrebounded TCU 49-38 and produced 42 points in the paint. Frankie Collins led the Horned Frogs with 15 points, and Noah Reynolds added 12. TCU went 1-for-17 on 3-point attempts. Santa Clara led for the first 24 minutes of the game, surrendered the advantage briefly, and then took charge again with a 24-3 run over a nine-minute span that was capped by a basket from Stewart with 4:04 to play. TCU missed 14 of its 15 shots in that pivotal stretch and never recovered. The Broncos scored the game&#8217;s first four points, and they went up 13-5 on a bucket by Mahi 4 1\/2 minutes into the contest. TCU cut the deficit to two points on Reynolds&#8217; driving layup at the 10:34 mark of the first half. Santa Clara pushed its advantage to 34-21 after a jumper by Kosy Akametu with 3:09 to play in the half. The Horned Frogs then scored the final six points of the half, as Reynolds hit a pair of layups that sandwiched two free throws by Ernest Udeh Jr. and culled the margin to 34-27 at the break. Stewart led all scorers with 14 points before halftime while Mahi added 11 for the Broncos. Reynolds paced TCU with 10 points as the Horned Frogs were 0-for-7 from beyond the arc over the first 20 minutes of play. TCU opened the second half with a 12-4 run capped by a 3-pointer by Collins to assume a 39-38 lead with 15:46 to play. A dunk by Udeh produced the Horned Frogs&#8217; last lead two minutes later before the Broncos scored the next 10 points, capped by a 3-pointer from Brenton Knapper. &#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/842610a436e658707aad74e44e2af717.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Feb 2, 2023; Spokane, Washington, USA; Santa Clara Broncos head coach Herb Sendek looks on against the Gonzaga Bulldogs in the first half at McCarthey Athletic Center. Mandatory Credit: James Snook-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>-James Snook-Imagn Images<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Stewart Jr. poured in 18 points while shooting 8-for-9 from the floor to lead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}