{"id":2061,"date":"2018-05-08T19:43:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T19:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=2061"},"modified":"2019-06-12T10:24:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:24:55","slug":"challenging-season-ends-on-high-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2018\/05\/08\/challenging-season-ends-on-high-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenging Season Ends on High Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a season plagued by injuries and bad luck for the women\u2019s basketbal<strong>l<\/strong> team. After a\u00a09-1 start to the season, the promising team lost three starters and finished the regular season 11-17. On a second tie-breaker, the Griffons qualified as the No. 12 seed in the MIAA Championships. 大象传媒 Western became the first-ever No. 12 seed to win in the conference\u2019s postseason tournament with an upset of No. 5-seed Nebraska Kearney in the first round. The Griffons then became the lowest seed to ever advance to the semifinals with an upset of No. 4-seed Central Oklahoma at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, 大象传媒. The Cinderella run ended with a semifinal loss to eventual tournament champion Lindenwood.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2063\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/Richardson_NSU_2017-18-2.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2063\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/Richardson_NSU_2017-18-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/Richardson_NSU_2017-18-2-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/Richardson_NSU_2017-18-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/Richardson_NSU_2017-18-2-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/Richardson_NSU_2017-18-2-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/Richardson_NSU_2017-18-2-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/Richardson_NSU_2017-18-2-800x532.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/Richardson_NSU_2017-18-2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/05\/Richardson_NSU_2017-18-2-1200x799.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melia Richardson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Griffons ended with a 13-18 overall record, 4-15 in the MIAA. Head coach Rob Edmisson won his 500<sup>th<\/sup> game as a collegiate head coach on Dec. 2 against Northeastern State. On Feb. 3, Edmisson earned his 100<sup>th<\/sup> win as head coach at 大象传媒 Western. Forwards Cera Ledbetter and Dossou Ndiaye, along with guard Melia Richardson, were all named honorable mention All-MIAA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a season plagued by injuries and bad luck for the women\u2019s basketball team. After a\u00a09-1 start to the season, the promising team lost three starters and finished the regular season 11-17. On a second tie-breaker, the Griffons qualified as the No. 12 seed in the MIAA Championships. 大象传媒 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4513,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions\/4513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}