{"id":51000,"date":"2018-03-16T05:50:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T09:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=51000"},"modified":"2018-03-19T09:37:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T13:37:32","slug":"raiders-will-play-toledo-in-wnit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/03\/16\/raiders-will-play-toledo-in-wnit\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s basketball plays Toledo tonight at 7 p.m. in WNIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/03\/13\/raiders-will-play-toledo-in-wnit\/wright_st_016-welch-2-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51004\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-51004\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2018\/03\/Wright_St_016-welch-2-1-508x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Wright State women&#8217;s basketball team received its fourth straight bid to the Women&#8217;s National Invitation Tournament (NIT) and will play at Toledo on Friday, March 16, starting at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State employees and students are encouraged to dress down and Raider Up Friday by wearing green and gold in support of the women\u2019s basketball team in the WNIT.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockets are 17\u201314 on the season and are riding a four-game losing streak, including a first-round MAC tournament game to Kent State 80\u201376 in overtime.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders, 23\u201310, lost to Green Bay in the finals of the Horizon League tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State has been led by Horizon League Player of the Year Chelsea Welch, who has averaged 21.2 points per game. Junior Emily Vogelphl, a member of the Horizon League Defensive Team, has averaged 10.7 points and 6.6 rebounds while Taylor Mackenzie, named to the Horizon League All-Tournament Team, has averaged 11.4 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders played at Toledo in the first round of the 2015 WNIT, falling 72-64.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wsuraiders.com\/documents\/2018\/3\/12\/\/2018_post_wnit_bracket_teams_dates_non_writable.pdf\">View the 2018 WNIT bracket<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wright State women\u2019s basketball team received its fourth straight bid to the Women\u2019s National Invitation Tournament and will play at Toledo on March 16 at 7 p.m.  <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/03\/16\/raiders-will-play-toledo-in-wnit\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":51004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[725],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-news-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51000","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=51000"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51115,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51000\/revisions\/51115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}