{"id":651,"date":"2005-03-23T21:30:05","date_gmt":"2005-03-24T03:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=651"},"modified":"2005-03-23T22:01:53","modified_gmt":"2005-03-24T04:01:53","slug":"aggie-hoops-rebound-season-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"Aggie Hoops Rebound Season Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The curtain just came down on the Texas A&#038;M men&#8217;s basketball season as the Ags <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsline.com\/collegebasketball\/gamecenter\/recap\/NCAAB_20050323_STJOS@TXAM\">fell 58-51<\/a> to St. Joseph&#8217;s in the quarterfinals of the NIT.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I have to feel good about a team that, under the tutelage of new coach Billy Gillispie, improved from 7-20 (0-16 in Big 12 play) to 21-10, 8-8 in conference.  Add to that not one but two post-season victories, a huge milestone for a program that hadn&#8217;t seen an NCAA or NIT win since 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Ags, it&#8217;s been a fun ride.  Can&#8217;t wait &#8217;til next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The curtain just came down on the Texas A&#038;M men&#8217;s basketball season as the Ags fell 58-51 to St. Joseph&#8217;s in the quarterfinals of the NIT. Still, I have to feel good about a team that, under the tutelage of new coach Billy Gillispie, improved from 7-20 (0-16 in Big 12 play) to 21-10, 8-8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}