{"id":39302,"date":"2016-03-15T22:52:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T02:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=39302"},"modified":"2016-03-15T22:52:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T02:52:39","slug":"florida-gulf-coast-beats-fairleigh-dickinson-in-first-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/03\/florida-gulf-coast-beats-fairleigh-dickinson-in-first-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Gulf Coast Beats Fairleigh Dickinson in First Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_39303\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39303\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39303\" title=\"fgcu-beats-fairleigh-dickinson-ncaa-tournament\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/fgcu-beats-fairleigh-dickinson-ncaa-tournament-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/fgcu-beats-fairleigh-dickinson-ncaa-tournament-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/fgcu-beats-fairleigh-dickinson-ncaa-tournament.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Joe Robbins\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Marc-Eddy Norelia scored 20 points and Florida Gulf Coast coasted to a 96-65 win over an overmatched Fairleigh Dickinson team in a First Four game Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Norelia opened the game with a dunk and the Eagles (21-13) never relinquished the lead, going on a 23-6 run in the first 10 minutes and opening a 40-19 lead at the half. Fairleigh Dickinson got some looks but couldn&#8217;t get much to fall, shooting just 33 percent from the field while playing thoroughly lackluster defense throughout.<\/p>\n<p>Julian Debose and Christian Terrell both added 14 for the Eagles, and Demetris Morant added 10. After Norelia&#8217;s opening slam, Brian Greene Jr. closed the scoring with a dunk for FGCU.<\/p>\n<p>Earl Potts Jr. led Fairleigh Dickinson (18-15) with 16 points despite sitting a good chunk of the second half with four fouls. Marques Townes added 13.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Gulf Coast faces North Carolina at 7:20 p.m. on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc-Eddy Norelia scored 20 points and Florida Gulf Coast coasted to a 96-65 win over an overmatched Fairleigh Dickinson team in a First Four game Tuesday night. Norelia opened the&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\/39302"}],"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=39302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}