{"id":4271,"date":"2019-01-04T14:50:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T20:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/?p=4271"},"modified":"2019-01-04T14:50:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T20:50:16","slug":"mens-basketball-wins-in-oklahoma-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/2019\/01\/04\/mens-basketball-wins-in-oklahoma-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Basketball Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Griffon men&#8217;s basketball (8-7, 2-2 MIAA) trailed by as much as 11 points in the second half, but came back to defeat Northeastern State (6-7, 0-4 MIAA) 71-70 on the road in Talequah, Oklahoma on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>With the Griffons holding on to a two-point lead, Northeastern State was fouled at the buzzer, sending the RiverHawks to the line with a chance to tie the game. After making the first attempt, the RiverHawks missed the potential game-tying free throw, giving the Griffons the one-point win.<\/p>\n<p><span>The men picked up their first conference win at Central Oklahoma (7-5, 0-3 MIAA) 85-80 on Jan. 3. The Griffons used excellent free-throw shooting and key stops in the final minutes to improve to .500 on the season. The Griffons lost to University of Illinois Springfield 89-81 in a home game Dec. 30.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Next up, the Griffons play at home against Washburn University &#8212; 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 9.<br \/>\n<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Griffon men&#8217;s basketball (8-7, 2-2 MIAA) trailed by as much as 11 points in the second half, but came back to defeat Northeastern State (6-7, 0-4 MIAA) 71-70 on the road in Talequah, Oklahoma on Saturday. With the Griffons holding on to a two-point lead, Northeastern State was fouled at the buzzer, sending the RiverHawks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}