{"id":12803,"date":"2019-03-09T21:05:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T03:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/?p=12803"},"modified":"2019-03-21T17:32:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T23:32:41","slug":"lady-bisons-fall-in-the-gac-tournament-ending-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/2019\/03\/09\/lady-bisons-fall-in-the-gac-tournament-ending-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Bisons fall in the GAC Tournament, ending season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lady Bison defense held the No. 8 team in the country, Southwest Oklahoma State University (SWOSU), to their third-lowest point total all season. Unfortunately for Harding, their offense\u2019s efficiency did not match their defensive intensity. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lady Bisons fell to SWOSU 70-42 in the semifinals of the Great American Conference (GAC) Tournament. Harding stood true to their season\u2019s calling card \u2014 their defense \u2014 holding the Lady Bulldogs to 36 percent shooting from the floor; the team averages 42 percent on the season. However, on the other end, SWOSU\u2019s full-court press frustrated Harding\u2019s offense, forcing 21 turnovers from the Lady Bisons. The Lady Bulldogs capitalized with 21 points off turnovers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SWOSU jumped out to an early lead 21-8 after the first quarter; however, Harding would storm back in the second quarter, doubling up the Lady Bulldogs 16-8. The Lady Bisons had to fight the whole quarter to make the score 29-24 at halftime. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The game floated between a two- or three- possession game until midway through the third quarter, when SWOSU went on an 11-0 run to end the quarter, seven of their points coming off free throws. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amanda Kearney lead Harding in scoring with 11 points, and Cheyenne Brown chipped in 10 points and eight rebounds. They were the Lady Bisons\u2019 only two scorers in double figures. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lady Bulldogs would continue their run into the fourth quarter, outscoring Harding 19-7, ending the Lady Bisons\u2019 season. Harding finishes 21-9 on the season, and 15-7 in conference play. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lady Bison defense held the No. 8 team in the country, Southwest Oklahoma State University (SWOSU), to their third-lowest point total all season. Unfortunately for Harding, their offense\u2019s efficiency&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15109,"featured_media":12804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12806,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12803\/revisions\/12806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}