{"id":62354,"date":"2019-03-11T15:45:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T19:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=62354"},"modified":"2019-03-11T16:06:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T20:06:35","slug":"womens-basketball-team-advances-to-horizon-league-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/03\/11\/womens-basketball-team-advances-to-horizon-league-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s basketball team advances to Horizon League championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/03\/11\/womens-basketball-team-advances-to-horizon-league-championship\/d1zid1_x0aoslw1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62362\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-62362\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2019\/03\/D1Zid1_X0AosLW1-508x290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a>The Wright State women&#8217;s basketball team held off a late rally to beat IUPUI 60\u201351 in the semifinals of the Horizon League tournament March 11 at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>No. 1 Raiders advanced to the conference finals and will play the winner of No. 2 Green Bay and No. 3 Youngstown State on Tuesday, March 12, at noon in the Little Caesars Arena.\u00a0The game will air on ESPNU. Students, faculty and staff are invited to watch the game in the Rec Commons and in the Hangar in Allyn Hall.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second year in a row that the Raiders will play in the Horizon League finals.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s team\u00a0has now tied the women&#8217;s basketball program&#8217;s all-time record of 26 wins in a season, which was set in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Mackenzie Taylor\u00a0led all players with 15 points, 10 of which came in the second half.\u00a0Angel Baker\u00a0added 14 points and five rebounds.\u00a0Emily Vogelpohl\u00a0scored eight of her 10 points in the second half while also adding six rebounds.\u00a0Symone Simmons\u00a0led all players with eight rebounds and\u00a0Tyler Frierson\u00a0tallied seven rebounds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wsuraiders.com\/news\/2019\/3\/11\/-wsu-wbasketball-v-iupui.aspx?path=wbball\">Read the full game recap at wsuraiders.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. 1 Raiders advanced to the Horizon League conference finals on Tuesday, March 12, at noon in Detroit. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/03\/11\/womens-basketball-team-advances-to-horizon-league-championship\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":62362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[725,715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62354","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\/62354","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=62354"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62382,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62354\/revisions\/62382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}