{"id":50764,"date":"2018-03-05T19:01:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T00:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=50764"},"modified":"2018-03-05T19:02:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T00:02:50","slug":"comeback-puts-raiders-in-horizon-league-tournament-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/03\/05\/comeback-puts-raiders-in-horizon-league-tournament-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Comeback puts Raiders in Horizon League tournament finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_50770\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/03\/05\/comeback-puts-raiders-in-horizon-league-tournament-finals\/wright_st_016-welch\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50770\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50770\" class=\"size-large wp-image-50770\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2018\/03\/Wright_St_016-welch-508x325.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senior\u00a0Chelsea Welch\u00a0led the Raiders with a team-high 17 points during Wright State\u2019s 60-52 win over IUPUI in the semifinals of the Little Caesars Horizon League Basketball Championship in Detroit.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Wright State women&#8217;s basketball team came from behind to post a 60\u201352 win over\u00a0No. 2 seed IUPUI\u00a0March 5 in the semifinals of the Little Caesars Horizon League Basketball Championship in Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders will play\u00a0top-seed Green Bay Tuesday, March 6, at noon. The game will be televised on ESPNU. The winner will receive an automatic bid\u00a0to the NCAA tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament&#8217;s third seed,\u00a0the Raiders\u00a0trailed by six after three quarters but outscored the Jaguars 26-12 in the final period for the win.<\/p>\n<p>Senior\u00a0Chelsea Welch\u00a0came alive in the fourth quarter with eight points to finish with a team-high 17 points, five steals and eight assists. Four other Raiders scored in double-digits for Wright State:\u00a0Symone Simmons\u00a0with 12 and\u00a0Emily Vogelpohl\u00a0and\u00a0Mackenzie Taylor\u00a0with 11 points each. Simmons grabbed nine rebounds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First\u00a0half highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Raiders trailed after the first quarter 15-11 as\u00a0Mackenzie Taylor\u00a0had six points from two threes.<\/li>\n<li>IUPUI led 26-20 at halftime.<\/li>\n<li>Taylor had six points in the first 20 minutes; Vogelpohl had five and\u00a0Chelsea Welch\u00a0had four.<\/li>\n<li>Wright State hit four threes and shot 28\u00a0percent from the field while holding the Jags to just one three.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Second half highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Though the Raiders cut the lead to two several times, the Jaguars led 40\u201334.<\/li>\n<li>Taylor had 11 points and Welch nine while\u00a0Lexi Smith\u00a0had six rebounds. Welch had four assists and three blocks.<\/li>\n<li>The fourth quarter changed the Raiders&#8217; destiny as they outscored the Jags 26\u201312, shooting 50\u00a0percent from the field.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Game stats<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wright State forced 19 turnovers as the Raiders posted 11 steals.<\/li>\n<li>IUPUI won the war in the paint 24\u201316, but the Raiders scored 23 points off turnovers.<\/li>\n<li>Wright State\u00a0led for 5:36 as the lead changed only three times.<\/li>\n<li>The Raiders shot 36 percent from the field as each team had 33 rebounds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Raiders and Green Bay will play for the Horizon League title and an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament on March 6 at noon. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/03\/05\/comeback-puts-raiders-in-horizon-league-tournament-finals\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":50771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[725,715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50764","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50764"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50774,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50764\/revisions\/50774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}