{"id":28723,"date":"2014-03-17T09:39:31","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T13:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=28723"},"modified":"2014-03-17T09:39:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T13:39:32","slug":"kim-demmings-wright-st-rally-for-horizon-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/03\/17\/kim-demmings-wright-st-rally-for-horizon-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Demmings, Wright St. rally for Horizon crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/12\/22\/wright-state-to-launch-%e2%80%9chealthy-steps%e2%80%9d-program\/wsu-raider-logo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7574\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7574\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2011\/09\/WSU-Raider-logo-260x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For Wright State to reach the NCAA women&#8217;s tournament for the first time, the Raiders had to accomplish another first for the program.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a resurgent second half by conference player of the year Kim Demmings, they did both.<\/p>\n<p>Demmings shook off a foul-plagued first half and scored 22 of her 26 points after the break, helping Wright State rally for an 88-69 victory over Wisconsin-Green Bay on Sunday in the championship game of the Horizon League women&#8217;s tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Demmings, limited to just nine minutes in the first half with three fouls, hit five 3-pointers in the second half as the Raiders overcame a 10-point deficit against the Phoenix, who were 27-0 at home against Wright State.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It feels good, it&#8217;s obviously a feeling we&#8217;ve never had, so I don&#8217;t know how the ride back&#8217;s going to after a win,&#8221; said Wright State coach Mike Bradbury. &#8220;Probably better than the loss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scores.espn.go.com\/ncw\/recap?gameId=400546619\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story from ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt For Wright State to reach the NCAA women&#8217;s tournament for the first time, the Raiders had to accomplish another first for the program. Thanks to a resurgent second half by conference player of the year Kim Demmings, they did &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/03\/17\/kim-demmings-wright-st-rally-for-horizon-crown\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":7574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[715,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28723","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\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28723"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28730,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28723\/revisions\/28730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}