{"id":52065,"date":"2019-12-13T08:45:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T14:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=52065"},"modified":"2019-12-13T08:45:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T14:45:32","slug":"tigers-begin-week-of-home-non-conference-games-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=52065","title":{"rendered":"Tigers begin week of home non-conference games Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fort Hays State Men&#8217;s Basketball will close out its slate of December games with three straight contests at home this week. The action begins on Sunday (Dec. 15) in a 4 pm meeting with Kansas Wesleyan. The Tigers enter at 4-4, while Kansas Wesleyan is 8-5 and plays on Saturday before heading to Hays.<br><br> The Tigers are coming off a pair of road losses in MIAA play last week at Nebraska-Kearney and Emporia State. This will be the 89<sup>th<\/sup> meeting between FHSU and Kansas Wesleyan. The Tigers hold a 26-win lead in the all-time series and have won 18 straight. The teams last met in the 2017-18 season, resulting in an 83-49 win for FHSU.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2fd738f053-0566-46f0-8b10-dcb11f18cac9%3felinkdata%3d142127&amp;c=E,1,DUVMB57psRLMutIrjJvCMgXXSpXmoRKo0uInvfL4KSxUlAPSOkrvR1jVHs64gW7hzlIT-V4FI24366TyZ-Dlb35TH_qVlJCjFV-_zo074JtZXQ,,&amp;typo=1\">Devin Davis<\/a> continues to lead the Tigers in scoring at 12.5 points per game, while also leading in assists at 2.5 per game. <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2fb386ed07-4c30-4172-85dd-10d7bce40145%3felinkdata%3d142127&amp;c=E,1,V1eIRQuiuJ5ECvV_qz3XTgMNKIObwjholYs8L7-flhrfyQnl0xSlfQ6A0C1v1DO-ugzgQ9urAShDCOk0Hj9Xv3bMUdbwD-95ktAkURTy7g_JLaMb&amp;typo=1\">Jared Vitztum<\/a> leads the Tigers in rebounding at 7.1 per game, while tying for second in scoring with <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2fd350ee97-6801-44be-afea-6aaa9ae96f72%3felinkdata%3d142127&amp;c=E,1,dFJvLNMS399sq1hA1kDbVhTVNMaAcMcacQ6qtD5fuZGKxc6yhPj8C-r7dGUCXZhlN2_LiYRzwJ0v6P_eCoC8t3Tm0euQDgP2vxL8dgexu2uenV1MF9meK_hM_FaP&amp;typo=1\">Nyjee Wright<\/a> at 11.4 points per game each. <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2ff159cf03-681c-45ee-a3c9-74b8d575b404%3felinkdata%3d142127&amp;c=E,1,QofpyCJlkEB23SYJwTHccZAzLTneA3suDa1NRdbqaBxv_s1uHLNLIhBRsaM-Gq2a-FuteoMJCjVzehV6jGI0AT-DkSg2py4Da4sXQlu00g,,&amp;typo=1\">Jake Hutchings<\/a> also averages double figures in scoring at 10.1 points per game.<br><br> The Tigers will have two more home games this week following Sunday&#8217;s contest. FHSU hosts Bethel College on Tuesday (Dec. 17) and then Avila University on Friday (Dec. 20). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION Fort Hays State Men&#8217;s Basketball will close out its slate of December games with three straight contests at home this week.&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-52065","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\/52065","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=52065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52066,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52065\/revisions\/52066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}