{"id":43557,"date":"2019-02-07T08:30:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T14:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=43557"},"modified":"2019-02-07T08:30:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T14:30:59","slug":"tigers-prepare-for-pivotal-game-at-pitt-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=43557","title":{"rendered":"Tigers prepare for pivotal game at Pitt State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Fort Hays State Men&#8217;s Basketball looks to snap a two-game losing skid when it plays at Pittsburg State on Thursday evening (Feb. 7). The teams enter the game with very similar records, FHSU at 13-7 overall, 7-4 in the MIAA, and PSU at 14-7 overall, 7-5 in the MIAA. Game time is set for 7:30 pm in Pittsburg, which follows the women&#8217;s contest at 5:30 pm.<\/p>\n<p>This is a big week for Fort Hays State, now fifth in the MIAA standings. Pittsburg State is a half-game back of FHSU in the standings in sixth, while Missouri Southern is a half-game ahead of FHSU in the standings in fourth. FHSU will play at Missouri Southern on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers are coming off a tough 59-56 loss at Nebraska-Kearney back on Saturday. The Tigers have dropped their last two road contests. FHSU defeated Pittsburg State in Hays last year by a narrow three-point margin of 77-74. <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2f34456e01-453a-4a28-9911-ba81d59723da%3felinkdata%3d123775&amp;c=E,1,BnkfG1Eo9cTI_gYeDJbsmrcmRKvz3TaO9-tXBIL25qKSXtW-EEKTtE8p7ERWsRLBwLp64NHrj-2dxyvrZb6tr8MRDm1MEc-ePpLe5Tm2ag,,&amp;typo=1\">Brady Werth<\/a> and former Tiger <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2f73d9cc19-8aeb-4537-a3cf-8e216f8fb120%3felinkdata%3d123775&amp;c=E,1,LFLC-82yUJA3wypRqm5foAeXqel0dfxjsTAQzqVKZ3i7xgJEk5N06ZZmrnuwTMddugQPOVt59xsYneVF9br8x08YbgflkmtKoQ49z0qE52EMnxYGcWMjWAA,&amp;typo=1\">Hadley Gillum<\/a> had double-doubles in points and rebounds in that game for FHSU, while Demetrius Levarity accomplished the same feat for the Gorillas.<\/p>\n<p>Werth has scored in double figures in 11 straight games for the Tigers going back to December 17. He leads the team in scoring at 15.8 points per game. <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2f9c860d4f-f8e7-4da8-bdc8-96b88f2e900f%3felinkdata%3d123775&amp;c=E,1,t5TtlQKRgAz5vIoTTugaZddWzXT7xB54vWuna-_jY3eM09W0o7i81ZZS6vgluIUcSVfKTyk5CVz6vDDlHS7zpOynnKWqR4RtWKxtp4T-v6VB9s1-rzZq7g,,&amp;typo=1\">Marcus Cooper<\/a> adds 13.9 per game, while <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2f33f04446-a682-43ce-9c2e-a6cad91d3779%3felinkdata%3d123775&amp;c=E,1,KMEQZxoddV8BuBEbqfezHLx7Xx6B7FWdG403jJEKC1qT2MpNK3lfmDhHEyfyFLm3l2n5GdNLXhJFzrNaCOyoxVHyms_FT1xGg2mFS3uCcgr5wBBwBAZi3utYXC0,&amp;typo=1\">Aaron Nicholson<\/a> averages 10.6 per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION Fort Hays State Men&#8217;s Basketball looks to snap a two-game losing skid when it plays at Pittsburg State on Thursday evening&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[],"class_list":["post-43557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mens-basketball-sports","category-sports"],"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\/43557","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=43557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43558,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43557\/revisions\/43558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}