{"id":33754,"date":"2015-04-08T11:04:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T15:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=33754"},"modified":"2015-04-08T11:04:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T15:04:51","slug":"basketball-player-to-compete-in-portsmouth-invitational-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/04_08_2015\/basketball-player-to-compete-in-portsmouth-invitational-this-week","title":{"rendered":"Basketball player to compete in Portsmouth Invitational this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guard Julius Brown is one of 64 college basketball seniors invited to compete in the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament to be held Wednesday through Saturday, April 8-11, in Portsmouth, Va. <\/p>\n

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Brown<\/p><\/div>His selection marks the second-straight year that a Rocket is participating in the event.<\/p>\n

The Portsmouth Invitational is the second event Brown has competed in since concluding his Rocket career. In the National Association of Basketball Coaches All-Star Game last Friday, he scored 12 points on 5 of 7 shooting (2 of 3 from three-point range) in 19 minutes.<\/p>\n

\u2028The tournament has been held since 1953 and each year invites top college basketball seniors from across the country to participate in the four-day, 12-game tournament in front of representatives from every NBA organization.<\/p>\n

\u2028The Markham, Ill., native guided the Rockets to an 81-50 (.618) mark as the team\u2019s point guard and received first-team All-Mid-American Conference First Team accolades for a second-straight season this past year. Brown led the Rockets in scoring for a second-straight campaign with 16.3 points per game to rank third in the MAC in scoring.<\/p>\n

Brown concluded his Rocket career ranked second in assists (695), third in points (1,838), tied for third in field goals (635), fifth in three-point field-goals (199) and eighth in free-throw percentage (80.4). He also finished his career with most games played (131), games started (131) and minutes played (4,327) in school history.<\/p>\n

\u2028For more information regarding the event, fans can go here<\/a>. The website contains player information, hotel details, previous records\/players, and more about the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Julius Brown is one of 64 college basketball seniors who will hit the hardwood in the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament Wednesday through Saturday, April 8-11. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,5,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}