Fort Hays State evened its overall record for the season by defeating Bethel 103-54 on Saturday afternoon (Nov. 22) in Hays. The Tigers led by 39 at halftime, then outscored the Threshers by 10 in the second half. FHSU is now 2-2 overall.<\/p>\n
Bethel challenged FHSU for the first four minutes of the game, as FHSU led 13-10 after a Bethel basket at the 15:43 mark. From that point, it was all Tigers as FHSU went on a 22-0 run to push its lead to 35-10 and never looked back. An 11-0 burst later in the half pushed the lead to 59-18 and the Tigers eventually led 61-22 at the break.<\/p>\n
In the first half, James Fleming<\/a><\/dfn> had the hot hand with 18 points, shooting 8-of-8 from the field. He finished the game with that same amount, but missed a field goal attempt in the second half. Craig Nicholson<\/a><\/dfn> had 11 assists at halftime and finished the game with 12 after seeing just a little bit of time at the start of the second half with the game well at hand. The Tigers shot a red-hot 62.9 percent from the field before intermission.<\/p>\n Achoki Moikobu<\/a><\/dfn> scored 11 second-half points and went on to tie Fleming for high-point honors in the game with 18. He drained 4-of-6 3-point field goal attempts in the game, while Fleming had two 3-pointers, combining for six of FHSU’s seven makes from beyond the arc. Dom Samac<\/a><\/dfn> also finished in double figures, scoring all 11 of his points in the first half.Jeremy Wilson<\/a><\/dfn> and Jared Tadlock<\/a><\/dfn> tied for a team-high five rebounds.<\/p>\n The Tigers scored a whopping 68 points off the bench, thanks to a big halftime lead. FHSU scored 38 points in the paint for the second straight game and had 22 points off turnovers.<\/p>\n The Tigers turn their focus to a road contest at Newman University on Tuesday night (Nov. 25). Tip is set for 7:30 pm at Fugate Gymnasium in Wichita. Newman enters the game at 2-0 overall after wins over Emporia State and Washburn at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fort Hays State evened its overall record for the season by defeating Bethel 103-54 on Saturday afternoon (Nov. 22) in Hays. The Tigers led by… <\/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],"tags":[842,665,4099,3466,756,2370,3475],"class_list":["post-16804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mens-basketball-sports","tag-achoki-moikobu","tag-craig-nicholson","tag-dom-samac","tag-fhsu-mens-basketball","tag-james-fleming","tag-jared-tadlock","tag-jeremy-wilson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17031,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16804\/revisions\/17031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}