{"id":550,"date":"2021-02-02T16:03:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T16:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=550"},"modified":"2021-02-02T16:03:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T16:03:41","slug":"trojan-mens-basketball-sweeps-division-leading-appalachian-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/archive\/sports\/trojan-mens-basketball-sweeps-division-leading-appalachian-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Trojan Men&#8217;s Basketball sweeps division-leading Appalachian State."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After struggling on the road in conference play the Trojan men&#8217;s basketball team returned home and swept the top team in the Sun Belt East over the weekend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trojans defeated App State 65-59 on Saturday night to complete a weekend sweep of the Mountaineers after a victory on Friday night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TROY is now 5-0 at home even though this was only their first Sun Belt game in Trojan Arena this season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nick Stampley led the offense scoring 19 points and snagging seven rebounds. Freshman Kam Woods added 12 points and six assists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the Trojans have struggled in conference play so far this season, Head Coach Scott Cross says he is proud of his teams effort. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Honestly this is probably as proud of a basketball team as I have ever been,&#8221; says Cross.  &#8220;The grit and the determination and the fight that our guys showed. I felt like App gave us their best punch early on, they were tough. They\u2019re physical. They are a great basketball team and our guys withstood it and we continued to play tough, continued to play together we didn\u2019t panic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the full story watch Diondra&#8217;s report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After struggling on the road in conference play the Trojan men&#8217;s basketball team returned home and swept the top team in the Sun Belt East over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p>The Trojans defeated App State 65-59 on Saturday night to complete a weekend sweep of the Mountaineers after a victory on Friday night. <\/p>\n<p>TROY is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/archive\/sports\/trojan-mens-basketball-sweeps-division-leading-appalachian-state\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[293,290,88,292,82,89],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-diondra-larkin","tag-scott-cross","tag-trojan-basketball","tag-trojan-mens-basketball","tag-troy-athletics","tag-troy-basketball"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}