{"id":70166,"date":"2021-11-24T10:23:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T14:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=70166"},"modified":"2021-11-24T10:24:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T14:24:15","slug":"toledo-womens-basketball-arrives-in-mexico-for-cancun-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/11_24_2021\/toledo-womens-basketball-arrives-in-mexico-for-cancun-challenge","title":{"rendered":"Toledo Women\u2019s Basketball Arrives in Mexico for Cancun Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_70167\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Womens-Basketball-Cancun-STORY-and-EMAIL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70167\" class=\"wp-image-70167\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Womens-Basketball-Cancun-STORY-and-EMAIL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Womens-Basketball-Cancun-STORY-and-EMAIL.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Womens-Basketball-Cancun-STORY-and-EMAIL-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-70167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UToledo women&#8217;s basketball team arrived in Mexico for the 2021 Cancun Challenge on Tuesday and will play two games at the Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya this week.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The University of Toledo women&#8217;s basketball team arrived in Mexico for the 2021 Cancun Challenge on Tuesday. The Rockets (2-1) will play two games at the Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya, facing Idaho State (1-3) and Seton Hall (2-1) later this week.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s game against Idaho State is set to begin at 6:30 p.m. and Friday&#8217;s contest against Seton Hall will start at 4 p.m. Both games will be streamed live on FloHoops.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the second time Toledo has played in the Cancun Challenge, with the last trip coming in 2016. The Rockets faced Davidson and No. 9 UCLA that season, defeating the Wildcats by a score of 76-41 before falling to the nationally ranked Bruins by just two points, 75-73.<\/p>\n<p>Toledo is coming off its first loss of the season, a 69-60 defeat at the hands of the Dayton Flyers last Wednesday. Dayton scored the first 10 points of the game and didn&#8217;t look back, leading wire to-wire. The Flyers would lead 20-8 at the end of the first quarter, putting the Rockets in an early hole they would not overcome.\u00a0Quinesha Lockett\u00a0tallied a team-high 22 points, her sixth straight 20-point game dating back to last season, and added a team-best four assists.<\/p>\n<p>Idaho State&#8217;s lone win came against Park University on Nov. 13, with the Bengals winning 109-56 on their home court. They have also faced No. 10 Oregon, Gonzaga and Missouri. Junior Tomekia Whitman is averaging 8.5 PPG and a team-high 6.0 RPG.<\/p>\n<p>Seton Hall has posted wins against Mount St. Mary&#8217;s and Lehigh, and its lone loss came against Fordham. Senior Andra Espinoza-Hunter is averaging 21.0 PPG and has been named to the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll twice this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rockets (2-1) will play two games at the Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya, facing Idaho State (1-3) at 6:30 p.m. Thursday and Seton Hall (2-1) at 4 p.m. on Friday. Both games will be streamed live on FloHoops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,56,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70166"}],"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\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70166"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70169,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70166\/revisions\/70169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}