{"id":87770,"date":"2017-12-26T19:56:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T00:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=87770"},"modified":"2017-12-26T18:15:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T23:15:26","slug":"ferguson-named-patriot-league-rookie-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=87770","title":{"rendered":"Ferguson Named Patriot League Rookie Of The Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"m_-8780041781142239023gmail-MsoNormal\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-72332\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ColgateRaiders-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ColgateRaiders-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ColgateRaiders-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ColgateRaiders-900x675.jpg 900w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ColgateRaiders-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ColgateRaiders.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>First-Year Led Colgate to Largest Margin of Victory in 71 Years<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-8780041781142239023gmail-MsoNormal\">Colgate men\u2019s basketball first-year guard Jack Ferguson has been named the Patriot League Rookie of the Week after guiding the Raiders to their largest margin of victory in 71 years, the league announced\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_385033152\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Tuesday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-8780041781142239023gmail-MsoNormal\">Ferguson tallied 19 points, four rebounds, four assists and three steals\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_385033153\"><span class=\"aQJ\">in 15 minutes<\/span><\/span>\u00a0of action in the Raiders\u2019 103-52 win over Pitt-Bradford\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_385033154\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Friday<\/span><\/span>. The Fort Wayne, Ind. native\u2019s 19 points came from a 6-for-9 showing from the field, while his four rebounds, four assists and three steals were all career bests. For the season, Ferguson is averaging 8.1 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-8780041781142239023gmail-MsoNormal\">The 51-point win over Pitt-Bradford marked Colgate\u2019s largest margin of victory since the 1946-47 season.<!--more--> The Raiders\u2019 103 points were the most in a single game\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_385033155\"><span class=\"aQJ\">in 20 years<\/span><\/span>, while the Raiders improved to 5-0 at home for the first time\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_385033156\"><span class=\"aQJ\">in 17 years<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-8780041781142239023gmail-MsoNormal\">Ferguson is the second Raider to earn Rookie of the Week honors this season, as first-year Jordan Burns hauled in the honors on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_385033157\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Nov. 20<\/span><\/span>. It marks the first time since the 2000-01 season that two different Raiders have earned Patriot League Rookie of the Week laurels when Mark Linebaugh and Howard Blue combined for seven honors throughout the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-8780041781142239023gmail-MsoNormal\">Ferguson and the Raiders return to action\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_385033158\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Friday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0when Colgate opens Patriot League play at Holy Cross. Tipoff is set for\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_385033159\"><span class=\"aQJ\">7 p.m.<\/span><\/span>and free video will be available on the Patriot League Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First-Year Led Colgate to Largest Margin of Victory in 71 Years Colgate men\u2019s basketball first-year guard Jack Ferguson has been named the Patriot League Rookie of the Week after guiding the Raiders to their largest margin of victory in 71 years, the league announced\u00a0Tuesday\u00a0afternoon. Ferguson tallied 19 points, four rebounds, four assists and three steals\u00a0in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}