{"id":47352,"date":"2015-03-25T18:44:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T01:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=47352"},"modified":"2015-03-25T18:44:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T01:44:50","slug":"couagars-season-ends-in-elite-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=47352","title":{"rendered":"Cougars&#8217; Season Ends in Elite Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=46537\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-46537\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-46537\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/APU_Seal_1807-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"APU_Seal_1807\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n<p>(Evansville, IN) &#8211;\u00a0Troy Leaf scored 29 points but it wasn&#8217;t enough as Azusa Pacific fell to Indiana\u00a0(PA) 69-65 Wednesday in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division II Tournament.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Leaf was 8 for 21 from the field overall\u00a0and the Cougars made just two field goals in the first ten minutes of the second half. APU led 33-31 at the half.\u00a0Leaf hit a three with 11 seconds left to cut the lead to 66-65 but APU couldn&#8217;t get over the hump.<\/p>\n<p>Azusa\u00a0Pacific knocked off\u00a0Western Oregon,\u00a0Cal Poly Pomona and\u00a0Cal Baptist to advance to the Elite Eight.\u00a0The Cougars finished 27-6 overall and were only the second team to reach the\u00a0elite eight in its first year of post season eligibility on the Division II level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (Evansville, IN) &#8211;\u00a0Troy Leaf scored 29 points but it wasn&#8217;t enough as Azusa Pacific fell to Indiana\u00a0(PA) 69-65 Wednesday in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division II Tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[871],"tags":[8824,10929,11067,11065,11064,11066,8830,11036],"class_list":["post-47352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","tag-azusa-pacific-basketball","tag-cal-baptist-basketball","tag-cal-poly-basketball","tag-division-ii","tag-elite-eight","tag-indiana-pa-basketball","tag-troy-leaf","tag-western-oregon-basketball"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47354,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47352\/revisions\/47354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}