{"id":5699,"date":"2020-01-02T10:15:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T16:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/?p=5699"},"modified":"2020-01-02T10:15:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T16:15:04","slug":"athletics-news-january-2-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/2020\/01\/02\/athletics-news-january-2-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics News January 2, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Men&#8217;s Basketball<br \/>\n<\/strong>The Missouri Western men&#8217;s basketball team (4-8) dropped its third straight game 87-75 at Rockhurst (5-4) on Dec. 21. After a 10-day break, the team hosted Avila University Dec. 31 and snapped its losing streak. Hot shooting gave the Griffons a 95-56 victory.\u00a0<strong><\/p>\n<p><\/strong>The Griffons host MIAA Conference-opponent Rogers State at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 4 in the Looney Arena. They will play at home again at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 6 against Northeastern State University, another member of the MIAA.<\/p>\n<p>They will be on the road at Washburn University on Jan. 9 and Emporia State Jan. 11.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Women&#8217;s Basketball<\/strong><br \/>\nThe women&#8217;s basketball team headed into the winter break with a three-game winning streak and advanced that to four against Avila University on Dec. 31, beating the Eagles 76-48.<\/p>\n<p>The Griffons host MIAA Conference-opponent Rogers State at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 4 in the Looney Arena. They will play at home again at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 6 against Northeastern State University, another member of the MIAA.<\/p>\n<p>They will be on the road at Washburn University on Jan. 9 and Emporia State Jan. 11.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men&#8217;s Basketball The Missouri Western men&#8217;s basketball team (4-8) dropped its third straight game 87-75 at Rockhurst (5-4) on Dec. 21. After a 10-day break, the team hosted Avila University Dec. 31 and snapped its losing streak. Hot shooting gave the Griffons a 95-56 victory.\u00a0 The Griffons host MIAA Conference-opponent Rogers State at 3:30 p.m. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699"}],"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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5700,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699\/revisions\/5700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}