{"id":3088,"date":"2019-03-22T10:05:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T15:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/?p=3088"},"modified":"2019-03-22T10:05:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T15:05:09","slug":"icymi-butler-womens-basketball-tops-northeastern-in-the-first-round-of-wnit-on-thursday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/2019\/03\/22\/icymi-butler-womens-basketball-tops-northeastern-in-the-first-round-of-wnit-on-thursday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Butler Women\u2019s Basketball tops Northeastern in the first round of WNIT on Thursday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Chelsea Groves<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">As an automatic qualifier for the WNIT, @ButlerUWBB (22-9) came out victorious in their first postseason appearance since 2014, 89-72. This was Butler\u2019s third WNIT win in program history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Head Coach Kurt Godlevske\u2019s team was in comeback mode after Northeastern jumped out to 23-17 lead at the end of the 1<sup>st<\/sup>quarter. The veteran squad quickly responded, scoring 35 points in the second quarter to lead by 16 at the break. The difference in the second quarter was the 17-1 run to end the first half. A strong 3<sup>rd<\/sup>quarter allowed the hosts to hold onto their halftime lead, outscoring the Huskies 24-8 in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup>quarter. Butler converted for 23 points off of Northeastern\u2019s 10 turnovers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Redshirt senior guard Whitney Jennings was miraculous finishing with 29 points, including going 7-13 from deep. She scored 14 of her 29 points in the second quarter. While doing so, the floor general surpassed 1,000 points on Thursday in just two years at Butler, currently at 1,001.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Four Bulldogs ended the night in double figures. Tori Schickel nearly put up a triple-double with 12 points, 10 rebounds, and 9 assists. Kristen Spolyar added 21 points, six rebounds and three steals. Shae Brey chipped in 10 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Butler advances to the second round of the WNIT, and will face Kent State at home on Saturday\u00a0\u00a0at 7 p.m. tip. Tickets are on sale at the Hinkle Fieldhouse box office starting this morning.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chelsea Groves As an automatic qualifier for the WNIT, @ButlerUWBB (22-9) came out victorious in their first postseason appearance since 2014, 89-72. This was Butler\u2019s third WNIT win in program history. Head Coach Kurt Godlevske\u2019s team was in comeback mode after Northeastern jumped out to 23-17 lead at the end of the 1stquarter. The [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9195607,"featured_media":2689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[292313],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-womens-basketball"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9195607"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3089,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions\/3089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}