{"id":4533,"date":"2012-03-18T21:09:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T03:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=4533"},"modified":"2012-03-20T12:48:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T18:48:08","slug":"fgcu-women-fall-in-ncaa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/03\/fgcu-women-fall-in-ncaa-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"FGCU Women <BR> Fall in NCAA Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/FGCU.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4534 alignleft\" title=\"FGCU\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/FGCU.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a>Hundreds of blue and green clad FGCU fans left the Tucker Center in Tallahassee in disappointment after the Eagle&#8217;s season comes to an end with a 72-65 loss in overtime Sunday in the first round of the NCAA tournament.\u00a0 The loss to St. Bonaventure snaps FGCU&#8217;s 21-game winning streak.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For a good part of the second half, it looked like it would be Florida Gulf Coast earning its first ever tournament win.\u00a0 The Eagles used an 11-0 run early in the second half to turn an eight point deficit into a five point lead.\u00a0 The run was highlighted by a three-pointer by senior Eglah Griffin.\u00a0 The shot gave FGCU 341 three-pointers for the year, breaking the Division I single-season record for three-pointers in a season.\u00a0 FGCU ended with 342 for the season.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Hansen led the Eagles with 15 points and 11 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>After giving up an 11-point lead in the final minutes of the game, senior Courtney Chihil&#8217;s layup with 3-seconds left sent the game into overtime, tied at 58.\u00a0 FGCU failed to hold on to that momentum in the extra-period, making just two of seven shots in overtime.<\/p>\n<p>FGCU finishes the season 29-3 overall, Atlantic Sun regular season and tournament champions, and NCAA record holder (most three-pointers in a single season).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of blue and green clad FGCU fans left the Tucker Center in Tallahassee in disappointment after the Eagle&#8217;s season comes to an end with a 72-65 loss in overtime&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533"}],"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=4533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}