{"id":63026,"date":"2019-03-18T20:41:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T00:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=63026"},"modified":"2021-03-09T15:19:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T20:19:41","slug":"wright-state-to-play-texas-a-and-m-in-first-round-of-ncaa-tournament-march-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/03\/18\/wright-state-to-play-texas-a-and-m-in-first-round-of-ncaa-tournament-march-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State\u00a0to play Aggies in first round of NCAA tournament March 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-63070\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-19-at-8.33.10-AM-508x375.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Wright State women&#8217;s basketball team will continue its magical season in the NCAA tournament Friday, March 22, against Texas A&amp;M at College Station, Texas. Game time is 4:30 p.m. Eastern and will be shown on ESPN2.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders are the 13th seed in the Chicago region, while the Aggies earned the 4th seed. The winner will play the winner of No. 5 Marquette and No. 12 Rice on March 24.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders (27\u20136) won the Horizon League regular season and tournament titles with wins over Oakland, IUPUI and Green Bay.\u00a0 This will be\u00a0Wright State&#8217;s second trip to the NCAA tournament after qualifying in 2014. For the second time in program history, Wright State has received a vote in the AP Top 25 Poll.<\/p>\n<p>The Aggies went 24\u20137 and 12\u20134 in the SEC this season and were recently ranked 14th nationally by the AP and ESPN polls.<\/p>\n<p>More information will be released soon.\u00a0 Fans can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/12thmanfoundation.evenue.net\/cgi-bin\/ncommerce3\/SEGetEventList?groupCode=WBP&amp;linkID=tamu&amp;shopperContext=&amp;caller=&amp;appCode=\">purchase tickets online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wright State women&#8217;s basketball team will open the NCAA tournament against Texas A&amp;M at College Station, Texas, at 4:30 p.m. March 22. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/03\/18\/wright-state-to-play-texas-a-and-m-in-first-round-of-ncaa-tournament-march-22\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":63142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2798,725,715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63026","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=63026"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102386,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63026\/revisions\/102386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}