{"id":43961,"date":"2019-02-20T11:45:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T17:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=43961"},"modified":"2019-02-20T11:46:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T17:46:57","slug":"tigers-head-to-uco-looking-for-sole-possession-of-4th-in-miaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=43961","title":{"rendered":"Tigers head to UCO looking for sole possession of 4th in MIAA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fort Hays State Men&#8217;s Basketball begins its final regular season road trip in Edmond, Oklahoma on Thursday (Feb. 21) when it takes on Central Oklahoma. Tipoff is set for 7:30 pm at Hamilton Field House. Fort Hays State has a chance to take over fourth place alone in the MIAA standings after a Lincoln loss on Tuesday evening.<br><br> Fort Hays State enters the game 15-9 overall and 9-6 in the MIAA. The Tigers are currently alone in fourth by a half game in the MIAA standings, but could make that a full game on Thursday with a win. Central Oklahoma is 10-14 overall and 3-12 in the MIAA, sitting at the bottom of the conference standings. UCO has only one conference win at home this year, coming against Southwest Baptist back on January 31. UCO is 1-5 in conference home games so far this year.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2fd5fefbd0-c0ca-49aa-9744-c1f7c5bf9b52%3felinkdata%3d125260&amp;c=E,1,CL3Bn89uVEojm6ZOV8ywgcD-Skcbifmah21ZpYkmogL4P1KdZFgSwpz4eNFaCfsFvWXnmgbRbnOb88Y64J28fDTC65fdcRQMhtDl3QyxHP61&amp;typo=1\">Brady Werth<\/a> leads the Tigers in scoring at 16.2 points per game, reaching double figures in the last 15 games. He reached the 20-point mark in a game for the ninth time this season with 22 points against Lincoln this past Saturday. <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2f68485e5e-de74-4229-bb65-14db96fdac11%3felinkdata%3d125260&amp;c=E,1,DF6_dhSouD0esoBbp8p4Lf5r3kqFzD_SBHbu2M1PJmIxCew05aL-s99iFemdUthHZyJ6RnTwdf1pHiLY50ImoZXevQSC8dsVqasNfmQuMHBNpM5IeSx7BY7J5Mk,&amp;typo=1\">Devin Davis<\/a> poured in a season-high 18 points for the second-straight game. He averages 8.6 points per game as the top scorer off the bench.<br><br> Adarius Avery leads UCO in scoring at 20 points per game. He scored in double figures in all 24 games this year and has 16 double-doubles to his credit in points and rebounds. He had a double-double of 26 points and 12 rebounds against the Tigers earlier this year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION Fort Hays State Men&#8217;s Basketball begins its final regular season road trip in Edmond, Oklahoma on Thursday (Feb. 21) when it&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-43961","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":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43961","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43963,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43961\/revisions\/43963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}