{"id":19724,"date":"2013-03-08T22:29:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T03:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=19724"},"modified":"2013-03-08T22:29:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T03:29:37","slug":"eagles-return-to-asunmbb-title-game-face-mercer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/03\/eagles-return-to-asunmbb-title-game-face-mercer\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles Return to #ASunMBB Title Game; Face Mercer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/eagles-return-to-asunmbb-title-game-face-mercer\/asun-mbb-quarterfinal-fgcu\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19725\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19725\" title=\"asun-mbb-quarterfinal-fgcu\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/asun-mbb-quarterfinal-fgcu-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/asun-mbb-quarterfinal-fgcu-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/asun-mbb-quarterfinal-fgcu.jpg 686w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Second-seeded FGCU (23-10; 13-5) advanced to its second-straight title game with a 72-58 win vs. third-seeded Stetson (15-16; 11-7) in the semifinals of the 2013 General Shale Atlantic Sun Men&#8217;s Basketball Championship. A-Sun Player of the Year, Sherwood Brown tallied a team-high 18 points &#8211; 16 of which came in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>The A-Sun Defensive Player of the Year, Bernard Thompson picked up his second double-digit rebound performance of the year with 13 boards to set a new career-best. Thompson added 12 points, four assists and four steals. He now has 95 steals on the season &#8211; tied for third-most in the A-Sun single-season history.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles appear in the title game after finishing as runner-up last season. They become the first team since Jacksonville in 2009 to return to the A-Sun title game after taking runner-up honors the year before. FGCU&#8217;s 23 wins this year sets the program record for victories, which was set last season at 15. The win improvement of eight games is tied for 27th-best in A-Sun history.<\/p>\n<p>The A-Sun Scholar-Athlete of the Year and First Team All-Conference selection, Adam Pegg posted a team-high 17 points and eight rebounds in the loss. Second Team member, Chris Perez added 15 points for the Hatters, while Hunter Miller, an Academic All-Conference selection, dished out six assists to tie for the game-high.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles earn a showdown with top-seeded Mercer as the two teams will square off Saturday at noon on ESPN2. The two teams split the regular-season meetings with both teams winning at home. The contest at Mercer went into overtime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second-seeded FGCU (23-10; 13-5) advanced to its second-straight title game with a 72-58 win vs. third-seeded Stetson (15-16; 11-7) in the semifinals of the 2013 General Shale Atlantic Sun Men&#8217;s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}