{"id":5567,"date":"2020-01-10T09:02:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T14:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=5567"},"modified":"2020-01-10T09:02:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T14:02:57","slug":"seu-mens-basketball-cruises-to-road-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2020\/01\/10\/seu-mens-basketball-cruises-to-road-win\/","title":{"rendered":"SEU &#8211; Men&#8217;s Basketball Cruises to Road Win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The SEU men&#8217;s basketball team defeated Johnson &amp; Wales 86-58 on the road this evening to advance to 13-5 on the season.&nbsp;Southeastern opened up the first five minutes of play with a seven-point advantage to lead 12-5 against the Wildcats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"900\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image_handler-6.jpg?fit=1024%2C461&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image_handler-6.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image_handler-6-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image_handler-6-1024x461.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image_handler-6-768x346.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image_handler-6-1536x691.jpg 1536w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Midway through the first frame, a three-pointer from JWU&#8217;s Michael Stuart cut the Fire&#8217;s lead to six. With 9:31 remaining, SEU held a 22-16 advantage over the Wildcats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the next seven minutes, Southeastern went on an 11-point run and held JWU scoreless for 5:10 to advance their lead to 31-16 with 3:40 to go in the frame.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The biggest lead in the half was seen with 41 seconds left after a lay-up from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fire.seu.edu\/roster.aspx?rp_id=2672\">Dylan Patrick<\/a>&nbsp;would advance the Fire&#8217;s lead to 21-points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the end of the half, Southeastern led 43-25 against the Wildcats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Patrick and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fire.seu.edu\/roster.aspx?rp_id=2657\">Jeremy Oppenheimer<\/a>&nbsp;finished the first half with 10 points each. Freshman,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fire.seu.edu\/roster.aspx?rp_id=2664\">Riley Minix<\/a>&nbsp;also ended the half with nine points and two steals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the field, the Fire were shooting .452 and .455 from beyond the arc. Southeastern also had much success from the free-throw line, as they sunk 10 of their 11 attempts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After five minutes of play in the second, the Fire continued their momentum as they grew their advantage over JWU by 20-points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The biggest lead seen in the game was after a tip-in from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fire.seu.edu\/roster.aspx?rp_id=2664\">Riley Minix<\/a>&nbsp;improved the Fire&#8217;s advantage by 33-points with 3:10 remaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the final whistle, the Fire earned an 86-58 victory over Johnson &amp; Wales to improve to 13 wins on the season.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five Fire individuals finished the night with double-digit points. Small forward, Minix led the team with a total of 25 points and nine rebounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Patrick and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fire.seu.edu\/roster.aspx?rp_id=2657\">Jeremy Oppenheimer<\/a>&nbsp;earned 15 points each.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fire.seu.edu\/roster.aspx?rp_id=2670\">Reggie Mesidor<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fire.seu.edu\/roster.aspx?rp_id=2656\">Isaiah Moody<\/a>&nbsp;both finished with 10 points each as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Southeastern will be back in action on January 11th as they return home to play No. 22 Keiser University at 7 p.m.&nbsp;\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SEU men&#8217;s basketball team defeated Johnson &amp; Wales 86-58 on the road this evening to advance to 13-5 on the season.&nbsp;Southeastern opened up the first five minutes of play&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seu-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}