{"id":2065,"date":"2018-05-08T19:44:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T19:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=2065"},"modified":"2019-06-12T10:24:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:24:55","slug":"mens-basketball-falls-in-miaa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2018\/05\/08\/mens-basketball-falls-in-miaa-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Basketball Falls in MIAA Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The men\u2019s basketball team finished the regular season strong to make the MIAA tournament on a tie-breaker as the No. 12 seed. Unfortunately, there was no underdog run for the Griffons who saw their season end in the first round of the tournament with a loss at No. 5-seed Central Missouri. The Griffons ended with an overall record of 6-21 and a 4-15 record in the MIAA. After five years as head coach, Brett Weiberg resigned following the season.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2062\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/Clearman_NSU_2017-18-2.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2062\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/Clearman_NSU_2017-18-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2062\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/Clearman_NSU_2017-18-2-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/Clearman_NSU_2017-18-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/Clearman_NSU_2017-18-2-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/Clearman_NSU_2017-18-2-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/Clearman_NSU_2017-18-2-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/Clearman_NSU_2017-18-2-800x532.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/Clearman_NSU_2017-18-2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/Clearman_NSU_2017-18-2-1200x799.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cole Clearman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cole Clearman became the program\u2019s all-time leader in three-point field goals with 233, breaking the 27-year old record of Heath Dudley \u201993 (217) on Feb. 7 at Washburn. In the same game, the senior guard became Missouri Western\u2019s 15<sup>th<\/sup> member of the 1,000-point club. Guard Lavon Hightower was named honorable mention All-MIAA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The men\u2019s basketball team finished the regular season strong to make the MIAA tournament on a tie-breaker as the No. 12 seed. Unfortunately, there was no underdog run for the Griffons who saw their season end in the first round of the tournament with a loss at No. 5-seed Central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4512,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions\/4512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}