{"id":883,"date":"2015-02-20T18:24:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T02:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=883"},"modified":"2015-02-20T18:24:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T02:24:02","slug":"wolves-improve-to-no-15-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wolves-improve-to-no-15-in-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves improve to No. 15 in the country"},"content":{"rendered":"
By JACOB HANSEN\r\n Staff Writer<\/pre>\n
Aired as the ROOT Sports Great Northwest Athletic Conference Game of the Week, the men\u2019s basketball team defeated GNAC rival Saint Martin\u2019s University 66-56 on Feb. 11 \u2014 a win that clinched the conference\u2019s first berth to this year\u2019s GNAC tournament. The No. 15 Wolves are now the highest-ranked West Coast team in this week\u2019s poll.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be in the Top 20 nationally is a great honor not only for the program, but for the university as well,\u201d said Head Coach Brady Bergeson. \u201cOur guys have worked hard all season and to be recognized on a national stage is such an honor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bergeson was featured in Monday\u2019s edition (Feb. 16) of the Orange County Register, which is a newspaper that serves the Southern California communities of Anaheim, Long Beach, San Juan Capistrano and more. Bergeson\u2019s career, family and team at Western are referenced in the article.<\/p>\n
The Wolves (21-3 overall, 13-1 GNAC) were once again lead by offensive juggernaut forward Andy Avgi who was 10-of-11 from the field and had a game-high 22 points. Avgi has scored double figures in 23-of-24 games this season alone and has scored 1,130 points during his 71-game career as a Wolf.<\/p>\n
Guard Julian Nichols did his part contributing 11 points, four rebounds and four assists. Forwards Marwan Sarhan and Lewis Thomas had eight rebounds a piece. Sarhan had eight points of his own.
\n\u201cJust look at what the big men did, they really pulled though,\u201d Nichols said.<\/p>\n
Nichols ranks second in the GNAC in both assists per game (with an average of 6.0) and in free-throw percentage, hitting 86.7 percent (72-for-83) of his shots when fouled.<\/p>\n
As a team, Western combined to shoot 26-for-51 (51 percent) from the field which included 61.5 percent (16-for-25) in the first half. The Wolves also shot a combined 3-for-15 (20 percent) from beyond the three-point line and 11-of-17 (64.7 percent) at the free throw line.<\/p>\n
The Wolves hosted Western Washington on Thursday, Feb. 19 (The Journal went to print before the end of the game). For the final home game of the season, the Wolves host Simon Fraser Saturday, Feb. 21 at 4 p.m. for Senior Night, honoring their four seniors.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to keep the streak going,\u201d Sarhan said. \u201cAll of the faculty and staff will be there and we want as many students as possible to come too. These are big.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By JACOB HANSEN Staff Writer Aired as the ROOT Sports Great Northwest Athletic Conference Game of the Week, the men\u2019s basketball team defeated GNAC rival Saint Martin\u2019s University 66-56 on Feb. 11 \u2014 a win that clinched the conference\u2019s first berth to this year\u2019s GNAC tournament. The No. 15 Wolves are now the highest-ranked West […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}