By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION<\/b><\/p>\n
Fort Hays State opens MIAA play on Tuesday night (Dec. 4) when it plays host to long-time rival Nebraska-Kearney. Tipoff is set for 7:30 pm at Gross Memorial Coliseum, following the women’s contest. The Tigers enter at 4-3 overall, while the Lopers are 3-3 overall.<\/p>\n
The Tigers are on a two-game win streak after wins over Sterling College and Central Christian College at home. The Tigers and Lopers meet for the 130th<\/sup> time in history on Tuesday night with FHSU leading the all-time series 79-50. The teams split their two meetings last year, FHSU winning by nine in Hays and UNK winning by three in Kearney.<\/p>\n Brady Werth<\/a> leads the Tigers so far this year with a team-best 13.3 points and 6.1 rebounds per game. Kyler Kinnamon<\/a> averages 4.6 assists per game and leads the MIAA in assist\/turnover ratio by the same average. All five of Fort Hays State’s starters average at least seven points per game. Marcus Cooper<\/a> (12.9) and Aaron Nicholson<\/a> (10.1) also average double figures in scoring for the Tigers.<\/p>\n Nebraska-Kearney is coming off a 29-point loss to Wayne State (Neb.) last Tuesday, but UNK shares common wins with FHSU so far this year by defeating both Colorado School of Mines and UC-Colorado Springs. Kanon Koster leads the Lopers this year at 16.8 points and 7.7 rebounds per game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION Fort Hays State opens MIAA play on Tuesday night (Dec. 4) when it plays host to long-time rival Nebraska-Kearney. Tipoff is… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42563,"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":[],"class_list":["post-42562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mens-basketball-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cooper.jpg?fit=300%2C169","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42562","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42564,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42562\/revisions\/42564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}