{"id":62526,"date":"2019-03-12T22:09:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T02:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=62526"},"modified":"2019-03-13T09:10:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T13:10:49","slug":"mens-basketball-will-receive-nit-bid-after-losing-in-horizon-league-title-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/03\/12\/mens-basketball-will-receive-nit-bid-after-losing-in-horizon-league-title-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s basketball will receive NIT bid after losing in Horizon League title game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/03\/12\/mens-basketball-will-receive-nit-bid-after-losing-in-horizon-league-title-game\/mbb-hl\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62538\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-62538\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2019\/03\/MBB-HL-508x319.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a>The Wright State men&#8217;s basketball team reached the championship game of the Horizon League tournament for the second consecutive year but came away with a 77\u201366 loss to Northern Kentucky March 12 at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>After finishing first in the Horizon League during the regular season, the Raiders will receive a first-ever bid to the National Invitation Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Three Raiders led the way against the Norse as Bill Wampler\u00a0scored 16 points with 15 points each from\u00a0Mark Hughes\u00a0and\u00a0Cole Gentry.\u00a0Loudon Love\u00a0ended with nine points, six rebounds and four blocks while\u00a0Alan Vest\u00a0grabbed seven boards.\u00a0Wright State shot 38 percent from the field, and the Norse shot 51 percent overall, including 59 percent in the first half as they led by as much as 18 points.\u00a0 NKU outrebounded the Raiders 38-35 and hit 12 three pointers.<\/p>\n<p>Wampler was named to the All-Tournament Team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wsuraiders.com\/news\/2019\/3\/12\/mens-basketball-wsu-mbb-nku-hl.aspx\">Read the full game recap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After finishing first in the Horizon League during the regular season, the Raiders will receive a first-ever bid to the National Invitation Tournament. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/03\/12\/mens-basketball-will-receive-nit-bid-after-losing-in-horizon-league-title-game\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":62538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[725,715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62526","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\/62526","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=62526"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62550,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62526\/revisions\/62550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}