{"id":423306,"date":"2024-11-26T18:58:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T18:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=423306"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Kansas-State-beats-Longwood-for-third-place-at-Paradise-Jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Kansas-State-beats-Longwood-for-third-place-at-Paradise-Jam\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas State beats Longwood for third place at Paradise Jam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coleman Hawkins had a season-high 19 points to lead Kansas State past Longwood 80-64 and claim third place in the Paradise Jam on Monday in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Hawkins, whose previous high was 12 points, shot 5-of-7 from 3-point range. He also pulled down 10 rebounds, three boards shy of his best total this season, for his first double-double in a Kansas State uniform. The Illinois transfer also had five assists, two blocks and two steals. Kansas State (5-2) had four players in double figures. Besides Hawkins, the Wildcats got 16 points from Brendan Hausen, 11 from Dug McDaniel and 10 from David N&#8217;Guessan. The Lancers (6-2) were led by Kyrell Luc with 15 points. Colby Garland added 13 points and Johan Nziemi had 11. Longwood&#8217;s two leading scorers, KJ McClurg (14.3 ppg) and Michael Christmas (10.9), were held to a combined three points, all of those by McClurg. Kansas State gradually pulled away in the second half, eventually leading by 21 points twice in the last 5:07. Once the Wildcats stretched the lead to double figures early in the half, the closest the Lancers got was nine points. It was a sloppy start to the game, with the teams combining for 13 turnovers and nine fouls by the second media timeout. The teams combined for 18 turnovers in the first half. K-State also struggled with foul trouble. N&#8217;Guessan picked up the team&#8217;s 10th foul to send Longwood to the double bonus with 8:37 left in the half. Longwood was 10-of-12 from the free-throw line in the half. A 9-0 run near the end of the half helped the Wildcats to take a 44-36 lead to the locker room. The Wildcats depended heavily on Hausen and Hawkins, who each put up 11 points in the first 20 minutes. They combined to go 5-of-5 from beyond the arc. The Wildcats were 7-of-11 as a team. Longwood was led by Nziemi and Luc with nine apiece. &#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/4829972f96004cad9052ae91bb376cfb.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Mar 14, 2024; Kansas City, MO, USA; Kansas State Wildcats coach Jerome Tang on the side lines during the first half Iowa State Cyclones at T-Mobile Center. Mandatory Credit: William Purnell-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>-William Purnell-Imagn Images<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coleman Hawkins had a season-high 19 points to lead Kansas State past Longwood 80-64 and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}