{"id":10109,"date":"2012-01-09T13:24:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T17:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=10109"},"modified":"2012-01-10T11:36:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T15:36:29","slug":"mays-named-horizon-league-co-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/01\/09\/mays-named-horizon-league-co-player-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Mays named Horizon League co-player of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>((Contributed by Wright State Athletics))<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10112\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-10112\" href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/01\/09\/mays-named-horizon-league-co-player-of-the-week\/ncaa-basketball-jan-08-valparaiso-at-wright-st\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10112\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10112\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2012\/01\/Mays-Valpo-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Junior guard Julius Mays scored 21 points in the win over Valparaiso Sunday.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For the second time in three weeks, Julius Mays, a junior on the Wright  State men&#8217;s basketball team, has been named the Horizon League Co-Player  of the Week, it was announced Monday by the league office.\u00a0 Youngstown State senior Ashen Ward was similarly honored.<\/p>\n<p>Mays&#8217; buzzer beating 3-pointer to lift the Raiders over Idaho in overtime December 20 has also been nominated as a GEICO Play of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Each week for eight weeks, four incredible college basketball plays will be nominated. Each weeks&#8217; winner will be determined by fan voting. Vote for Mays&#8217; shot through the official Facebook page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BestofCollegeBasketball\">facebook.com\/BestofCollegeBasketball<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>Mays scored a total of 45 points, including 24 against Butler Friday night, for an average of 22.5 points for the week.\u00a0 He scored 21 in the win over Valparaiso Sunday.\u00a0 The junior guard from Marion, Indiana, also grabbed 13 rebounds for the week and shot 52% (12-23) from the field, 60% (3-5) from three and 95% (18-19) from the line.\u00a0 Mays has scored 21 or more points in the last four games and seven times during the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders (9-9, 4-2 Horizon) play at Milwaukee Thursday night and at Green Bay Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time in three weeks, Julius Mays, a junior on the Wright State men&#8217;s basketball team, has been named the Horizon League Co-Player of the Week&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/01\/09\/mays-named-horizon-league-co-player-of-the-week\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":10112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,715,719],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news","category-special-categories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10109"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10124,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10109\/revisions\/10124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}