{"id":50948,"date":"2018-03-11T20:44:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T00:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=50948"},"modified":"2018-03-11T20:45:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T00:45:06","slug":"raiders-draw-tennessee-in-ncaa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/03\/11\/raiders-draw-tennessee-in-ncaa-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders draw Tennessee in NCAA tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/03\/08\/dayton-daily-news-raiders-try-to-return-to-normalcy-after-clinching-ncaa-tourney-bid\/horizon-league-champs\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50913\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-50913\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2018\/03\/Horizon-league-champs-508x287.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a>The 2018 Horizon League Champion Wright State men&#8217;s basketball team will play No. 3 Tennessee in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in Dallas on Thursday, March 15. Game time is 12:40 p.m. Eastern. The Raiders are ranked 14th in the south region.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders, making their third Division I NCAA tournament appearance, were a\u00a0No. 2 seed in the Horizon League tournament and defeated Green Bay, Milwaukee and Cleveland State in the championship game. Senior\u00a0Grant Benzinger, who has led the Raiders in scoring all season, was named the Most Valuable Player of the tournament as freshman\u00a0Loudon Love was selected to the All-Tournament Team.<\/p>\n<p>For the regular season, Benzinger was named First-Team, Love to the Second Team and Freshman of the Year and junior\u00a0<dfn>Mark Hughes\u00a0<\/dfn>was placed on the All-Defensive Team.\u00a0Head coach\u00a0Scott Nagy\u00a0was named the Horizon League Coach of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State, which set a school record with 25 wins, also appeared in the 1993 tournament (16th seed) when they met Indiana and 2007 tournament (14th seed) against Pittsburgh.\u00a0 This is the first meeting in school history with the Volunteers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wsuraiders.com\/news\/2018\/3\/8\/mens-basketball-ncaa-tournament-ticket-policy-announced.aspx\">Get details about how to obtains tickets<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State men&#8217;s basketball team will play No. 3 Tennessee in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in Dallas on March 15 <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/03\/11\/raiders-draw-tennessee-in-ncaa-tournament\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":50913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[725,715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50948","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\/50948","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=50948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50951,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50948\/revisions\/50951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}