{"id":25830,"date":"2016-03-03T08:11:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T14:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=25830"},"modified":"2017-08-14T11:19:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T16:19:38","slug":"tiger-men-hold-steady-at-no-4-in-central-region-rankings-for-third-straight-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=25830","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Men Hold Steady at No. 4 in Central Region Rankings for Third Straight Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FHSU Sports Information Department<\/p>\n<p>INDIANAPOLIS &#8211; Fort Hays State Men&#8217;s Basketball remained No. 4 in the latest NCAA Central Region Rankings, released on Wednesday (Mar. 2). The Tigers have been ranked No. 4 in all four releases of the rankings and they enter MIAA Tournament play this weekend in Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Hays State is among a cluster of teams fighting for the final five selections to the NCAA Tournament in the Central Region. The top three ranked teams are fairly safe in earning bids to the tournament, but there is plenty of volatility to the No. 4 through No. 10 ranking. Despite losing once last week, the Tigers stayed on top of the final seven teams referenced in the poll since all but last week&#8217;s No. 9 team lost as well.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers face Central Oklahoma in the quarterfinals of the MIAA Tournament on Friday. Should they advance, they could potentially play either Northwest Missouri State or Lindenwood in the semifinals. Northwest Missouri State is the No. 2 ranked team in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Below are the Central Region Rankings for March 2.<\/p>\n<table class=\"x_ncaa-rankings-table x_tablesorter x_table x_table-striped x_table-bordered x_sticky-enabled x_tableheader-processed x_sticky-table\">\n<tbody>\n<tr class=\"x_odd\">\n<td><strong>Rank<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>School<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Overall DII Record<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>In-Region Record<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"x_even\">\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Augustana (SD)<\/td>\n<td>24-2<\/td>\n<td>24-2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"x_odd\">\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Northwest Mo. St.<\/td>\n<td>20-5<\/td>\n<td>20-5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"x_even\">\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>MSU Moorhead<\/td>\n<td>25-4<\/td>\n<td>23-3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"x_odd\">\n<td><strong>4<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Fort Hays State<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>16-9<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>16-9<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"x_even\">\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>Minn. St. Mankato<\/td>\n<td>17-9<\/td>\n<td>17-9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"x_odd\">\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Neb.-Kearney<\/td>\n<td>17-10<\/td>\n<td>17-10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"x_even\">\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>Harding<\/td>\n<td>18-9<\/td>\n<td>18-9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"x_odd\">\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>East Central<\/td>\n<td>20-7<\/td>\n<td>20-7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"x_even\">\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>Mo. Southern St.<\/td>\n<td>17-11<\/td>\n<td>17-11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"x_odd\">\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>Pittsburg St.<\/td>\n<td>16-12<\/td>\n<td>16-12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FHSU Sports Information Department INDIANAPOLIS &#8211; Fort Hays State Men&#8217;s Basketball remained No. 4 in the latest NCAA Central Region Rankings, released on Wednesday (Mar.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3394,7349],"tags":[6818,3466,106,9560],"class_list":["post-25830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mens-basketball-sports","category-sports","tag-roartigers","tag-fhsu-mens-basketball","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-ncaa-division-ii-central-regional"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25831,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25830\/revisions\/25831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}