{"id":50589,"date":"2019-11-08T07:47:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T13:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=50589"},"modified":"2019-11-08T07:47:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T13:47:20","slug":"tigers-open-season-with-pair-of-gac-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=50589","title":{"rendered":"Tigers open season with pair of GAC opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fort Hays State Men&#8217;s Basketball will open the 2019-20 season on Friday, November 8 when it takes on Arkansas Tech University at 5:30 pm in Russellville, Arkansas. On Saturday, the Tigers face Southwestern Oklahoma State University at 3 pm. The Tigers enter their 19<sup>th<\/sup> season under head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2fc4fc461f-c326-4143-8998-3735a9017a92%3felinkdata%3d139183&amp;c=E,1,xHkMA0D-2XyeIe8CKZq1YAiXHwPWkBCyASnw_Dk-R1L2PtN1LKXZ8lkZz9VfAdmxsfL-qN2KUKLzw8RnNX-BRKM0aUVmFFYP0REOrXUUWw,,&amp;typo=1\">Mark Johnson<\/a>, who owns a record of 359-172 (.676).<br><br> Fort Hays State meets Arkansas Tech for just the second time in school history. The only other meeting dates all the way back to the 1951-52 season when FHSU won 76-59. There is a bigger sample of history against Southwestern Oklahoma State with the last meeting occurring in 2010-11. This will be the 25<sup>th<\/sup> time in history the Tigers and Bulldogs meet. FHSU claimed the meeting in 2010-11 by a score of 83-68 in a neutral site contest in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.<br><br> The Tigers finished 18-11 overall in 2018-19, while finishing fourth in the MIAA with a 12-7 mark. The Tigers are receiving votes in the NABC Division II Preseason National Poll.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2f5bcf26bb-106d-45a7-bac2-1b5af74e2561%3felinkdata%3d139183&amp;c=E,1,jev9eOYJ15ALOd2u1FbB0UWTBqlTry6SHVGxLVrmeI4iMoGpyQ1MDcQJmg108KqHANW7VVxzrHOMn6mRGzzxRf5-WiKBC6p-hP8-lZPm1IHjlSk1W7qgwQdfNL8,&amp;typo=1\">Aaron Nicholson<\/a> is the top returning scorer from last season, who averaged 9.0 points per game. <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2faf9fe9e3-5d53-42c5-9196-a997402ff912%3felinkdata%3d139183&amp;c=E,1,iMOdjFLUPP6t7T7e2jsCuizSP6wQwL0D_A9Y1hKax8sn3qg2DEmhr5QRFdc_9nBRIMmUMTEiU62fNSyq3oxyubh26lam91xvixTLar-r&amp;typo=1\">Devin Davis<\/a> was right behind him at 8.6 per game. <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2f0f91fb8b-4f5a-41be-a24d-fa506724fe67%3felinkdata%3d139183&amp;c=E,1,7fcroj4o_r8hdh-x0Oey_d8zpyZ4IzX7VdC3smqDC3t9xKexWsb_cDb-Y65mhSZ6EcPN1S-Fcb5eB-YKvRg_QkEEYwa0H56bR0PBheAXELfs0h_LAGo,&amp;typo=1\">Jared Vitztum<\/a> is the top returning rebounder after pulling down 5.3 per game last year, while adding 7.3 points per game.<br><br> Arkansas Tech is coming off a 12-16 season in 2018-19. R.J. Glasper is the top returning scorer for ATU after averaging 18.4 points and 4.9 assists per game last year. Southwestern Oklahoma State finished 5-23 overall in 2018-19. Kamden Gipson is the top returning scorer for SWOSU at 8.4 points per game, while dishing out 3.7 assists per game. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION Fort Hays State Men&#8217;s Basketball will open the 2019-20 season on Friday, November 8 when it takes on Arkansas Tech University&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-50589","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\/50589","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=50589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50590,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50589\/revisions\/50590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}