{"id":5224,"date":"2011-03-24T02:47:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T07:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=5224"},"modified":"2011-03-24T10:11:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T15:11:11","slug":"morrow-helps-college-advance-in-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/03\/24\/morrow-helps-college-advance-in-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"Morrow helps college advance in tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5227\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5227\" style=\"width: 125px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5227 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Chris-Morrow-West-Liberty-3-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"228\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5227\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Morrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SPRINGFIELD, Mass. &#8212; Van Wert High School grad and Cougar basketball standout Chris Morrow was instrumental in helping the unbeaten and No. 1-ranked West Liberty (W.Va.) Hilltoppers to a 113-95 victory over Anderson, S.C., in the Elite Eight quarterfinal of the NCAA Division II men&#8217;s basketball tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Morrow, a 6-6 sophomore at West Liberty (33-0), hit 10 of 11 shots from the floor &#8212; including a 4-for-4 performance from three-point range &#8212; to tie a career-high offensive performance of 25 points and help the Hilltoppers earn the victory. Morrow was the top scorer in the game.<\/p>\n<p>The 2009 VWHS graduate played for Coach Dave Froelich&#8217;s Cougars, lettering in basketball three years and twice being named first team All-Western Buckeye League, as well as a two-time honorable mention All-Ohio selectee.<\/p>\n<p>Morrow is the son of Mike and Diana Morrow and is majoring in communications at West Liberty. He is also the grandson of Dick Kortokrax, the winningest high school basketball coach in Oho history, with 805 wins in 50 seasons at Fort Jennings, Ottoville and Kalida.<\/p>\n<p>West Liberty will now play Brigham Young University-Hawaii in the final four of the NCAA Division II tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPRINGFIELD, Mass. &#8212; Van Wert High School grad and Cougar basketball standout Chris Morrow was instrumental in helping the unbeaten and No. 1-ranked West Liberty (W.Va.) Hilltoppers to a 113-95 victory over Anderson, S.C., in the Elite Eight quarterfinal of the NCAA Division II men&#8217;s basketball tournament. Morrow, a 6-6 sophomore at West Liberty (33-0), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 05:19:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}