{"id":4363,"date":"2019-01-28T09:02:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T15:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/?p=4363"},"modified":"2019-01-28T09:02:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T15:02:06","slug":"mens-and-womens-basketball-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/2019\/01\/28\/mens-and-womens-basketball-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s and Women&#8217;s Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The men&#8217;s basketball team under Head Coach Sundance Wicks stands at 9-11 overall with their latest win over University of Nebraska-Kearney on Jan. 26. <span>After a Nebraska Kearney three-pointer cut the Griffons&#8217; lead to just one point with 13 seconds remaining, Lavon Hightower<\/span><dfn><\/dfn><span>\u00a0nailed both free throws following a Loper foul to extend the lead to three. The Lopers missed the potential game-tying three on the ensuing possession, giving Missouri Western (9-11, 3-6 MIAA) the 83-79 road victory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The win broke a four-game losing skid which included a loss to Fort Hays State on Jan. 24.<\/p>\n<p>Women&#8217;s basketball under Head Coach Rod Edmisson came up short against University of Nebraska-Kearney 62-53. The Griffons\u00a0<span>trailed by as much as 13 points in the fourth quarter before chipping the deficit to just four in the final minute. However, Nebraska Kearney (12-7, 5-5 MIAA) made five of its final six free throws for the victory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The women lost to Fort Hays State on Jan. 24, but beat Northwest Missouri State at home on Jan. 19.<\/p>\n<p>Next up for the men and women are two home games &#8212; 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. Jan. 31 against Missouri Southern, and 2 and 4 p.m. against Pittsburg State on Feb. 2. That game is Missouri Western&#8217;s Military Appreciation game.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The men&#8217;s basketball team under Head Coach Sundance Wicks stands at 9-11 overall with their latest win over University of Nebraska-Kearney on Jan. 26. After a Nebraska Kearney three-pointer cut the Griffons&#8217; lead to just one point with 13 seconds remaining, Lavon Hightower\u00a0nailed both free throws following a Loper foul to extend the lead to [&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\/4363"}],"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=4363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}