{"id":62386,"date":"2019-03-12T09:23:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T13:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=62386"},"modified":"2019-03-12T09:23:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T13:23:52","slug":"mens-basketball-team-reaches-horizon-league-title-game-for-2nd-straight-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/03\/12\/mens-basketball-team-reaches-horizon-league-title-game-for-2nd-straight-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s basketball team reaches Horizon League title game for 2nd straight year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/03\/12\/mens-basketball-team-reaches-horizon-league-title-game-for-2nd-straight-year\/hl_mbb_gb_vs_wsu_117\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62394\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-62394\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2019\/03\/HL_MBB_GB_vs_WSU_117-508x440.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"398\" \/><\/a>The Wright State men&#8217;s basketball team will make its second consecutive appearance in the Little Caesars Horizon League Tournament Championship Tuesday, March 12, after defeating Green Bay 66-54 in the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>No. 1 Raiders will face No. 2 Northern Kentucky at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit at 7 p.m. The game will air on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Students, faculty and staff are invited to watch the game in the Rec Commons and in the Hangar in Allyn Hall and at\u00a0Milano&#8217;s Beavercreek.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders improved to 21-12 overall with their win over Green Bay on March 11. Wright State was led by Bill Wampler, who\u00a0scored 18 points while\u00a0Loudon Love\u00a0added 10 points and 12 rebounds, his 12th double-double of the season.\u00a0Freshman\u00a0Malachi Smith\u00a0had nine points and six boards with\u00a0Cole Gentry\u00a0also pitching in nine points.\u00a0Alan Vest finished with eight rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State shot 36 percent from the field and outrebounded the Phoenix 40-34, while forcing 16 turnovers.\u00a0The Raiders led by 20 points early in the second half and held the advantage for more than 37 minutes of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full game recap at wsuraiders.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. 1 Raiders will face No. 2 Northern Kentucky in the Horizon League Tournament Championship at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit at 7 p.m. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/03\/12\/mens-basketball-team-reaches-horizon-league-title-game-for-2nd-straight-year\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":62398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[725,715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62386","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\/62386","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=62386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62406,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62386\/revisions\/62406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}