{"id":1771,"date":"2018-11-05T18:28:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T18:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2018-11-12T18:29:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T18:29:23","slug":"basketball-splits-in-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/2018\/11\/05\/basketball-splits-in-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball Splits in Tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ctl00_contentDiv\" class=\"contentDiv\">\n<article class=\"story-wrapper post-1 post cf\">\n<div class=\"left story-column\">\n<div class=\"story-text\">The era of Head Men\u2019s Basketball Coach Sundance Wicks\u00a0began with a nail-biting 78-76 loss to Tarleton State in the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame Classic at the St. Joseph Civic Arena on Nov. 3, but the Griffons came back with an 80-73 win against Fairmont State University on Nov. 4.<\/div>\n<div class=\"story-text\">In the first game, Tarleton State made two free throws with 10 seconds remaining to break a 76-76 tie and Lavon Hightower\u2019s attempt at his fifth three-pointer of the game went off the rim at the buzzer. In\u00a0the Nov. 4 game, Missouri Western erased a nine-point deficit with an 18-7 run over a five-minute period in the second half. The Griffons never trailed again and scored its final six points of the game at the free throw line.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Griffons play again next weekend in the Civic Arena, when they host the 27th annual Hillyard Tip-off Classic. Play for Missouri Western starts at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9 against Winona State University. They play again at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 10 against Upper Iowa University.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The team\u2019s first game in the Looney arena will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6 against Lindenwood University.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The era of Head Men\u2019s Basketball Coach Sundance Wicks\u00a0began with a nail-biting 78-76 loss to Tarleton State in the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame Classic at the St. Joseph Civic Arena on Nov. 3, but the Griffons came back with an 80-73 win against Fairmont State University on Nov. 4. In the first game,  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-griff-gab"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-31 23:30:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1772,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions\/1772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}