{"id":6732,"date":"2024-02-19T11:44:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T17:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/?p=6732"},"modified":"2024-02-19T12:58:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T18:58:01","slug":"lack-of-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of heart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>UTRGV loses two games during Homecoming Week<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Victoria Gonzalez | Vaquero Radio<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"502\" height=\"670\" src=\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Bask0219.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Bask0219.jpg 502w, https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Bask0219-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>UTRGV junior guard Sherman Brashear shoots a free throw Thursday during a game against Abilene Christian University at the Fieldhouse.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Tori-first-basketball-story.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">UTRGV suffered two back-to-back losses during its Homecoming Week celebration against UT Arlington Saturday and Abilene Christian University Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Vaqueros are now 6-19 overall and 2-12 in WAC play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Men\u2019s basketball lost 89-70 Saturday against UT Arlington and fell 87-79 to the Abilene Christian University Wildcats Thursday at the UTRGV Fieldhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Thursday\u2019s game, the Vaqueros were still within four at 82-78 with 1:12 remaining, but they soon fell behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the game, junior guard Ellijah Elliot shares how he and his fellow teammates worked hard during their practices for a week since their last game against Stephen F. Austin University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UTRGV junior guard Hasan Abdul-Hakim suffered a foot injury on Jan. 18 during the loss against UT Arlington and was ready to hop back onto the court. However, Figger says he did not expect Abdul-Hakim to return so swiftly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cI didn\u2019t expect him to be available,\u201d he said. \u201cHe hadn\u2019t played a game in, you know, over a month, so I knew he\u2019d be rusty. I don\u2019t know if this is a one-game deal or what. I don\u2019t know what his foot\u2019s gonna feel like tomorrow, and, you know, I give him credit. He wanted to try to step up through the injury.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Head coach Matt Figger says the team\u2019s defense strategies ultimately contributed to the loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cWe played middle-school defense,\u201d Figger said. \u201cDefense was awful, nonexistent. This was a game of heart. They had more heart than we did. They played with a tougher edge. We weren\u2019t very good defensively.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As the UTRGV Men\u2019s Basketball Team has only two conference wins, Figger says the only way to improve is to have more heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cHeart, commitment, I mean all those words that we like to say in sports,\u201d he said. \u201cBelieving in one another. It goes back to the lack of leadership, and it starts with me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Figger adds the team gave the game away by feeling sorry for itself and pointing fingers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe game\u2019s not over,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not like they\u2019re coming in on this crazy winning streak. It was a battle of who had the most heart and will. They had it, and we didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Figger elaborates on things he will emphasize moving forward for future games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cIt just comes down to the guy\u2019s character,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s all: character. Character, heart, toughness, resiliency, testicular fortitude, you know. Whatever analogy you wanna use, that\u2019s all it boils down to.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Vaqueros will hit the road to take on the Utah Valley Wolverines at 7 p.m. Thursday in a conference game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, visit goutrgv.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is Victoria Gonzalez for Vaquero Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UTRGV loses two games during Homecoming Week Victoria Gonzalez | Vaquero Radio UTRGV suffered two back-to-back losses during<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":6733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14],"tags":[606,28,68,44,46,194,42,26],"class_list":["post-6732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","category-sports","tag-606","tag-basketball","tag-edinburg","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-spring","tag-students","tag-utrgv"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lack of heart - The Valley&#039;s Student Station<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lack of heart - The Valley&#039;s Student Station\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"UTRGV loses two games during Homecoming Week Victoria Gonzalez | Vaquero Radio UTRGV suffered two back-to-back losses during\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Valley&#039;s Student Station\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-02-19T17:44:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-02-19T18:58:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Bask0219.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"502\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"670\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Victoria Gonzalez\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Victoria Gonzalez\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Victoria Gonzalez\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/#\/schema\/person\/436e807e4dd8b4952bbb3f2c72aaac7b\"},\"headline\":\"Lack of heart\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-02-19T17:44:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-19T18:58:01+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/\"},\"wordCount\":488,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Bask0219.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"2024\",\"Basketball\",\"Edinburg\",\"NEWS\",\"SPORTS\",\"Spring\",\"Students\",\"UTRGV\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Basketball\",\"Sports\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/\",\"name\":\"Lack of heart - The Valley&#039;s Student Station\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Bask0219.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-02-19T17:44:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-19T18:58:01+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Lack of heart\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/\",\"name\":\"The Valley&#039;s Student Station\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Valley&#039;s Student Station\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/output-onlinepngtools-scaled.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/output-onlinepngtools-scaled.png\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":946,\"caption\":\"The Valley&#039;s Student Station\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/#\/schema\/person\/436e807e4dd8b4952bbb3f2c72aaac7b\",\"name\":\"Victoria Gonzalez\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cd444c833eaa7f4a78eeec70dc50285492934cec153a39690eef55d09573ca0e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cd444c833eaa7f4a78eeec70dc50285492934cec153a39690eef55d09573ca0e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Victoria Gonzalez\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/author\/victoria-gonzalez\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Lack of heart - The Valley&#039;s Student Station","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Lack of heart - The Valley&#039;s Student Station","og_description":"UTRGV loses two games during Homecoming Week Victoria Gonzalez | Vaquero Radio UTRGV suffered two back-to-back losses during","og_url":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/","og_site_name":"The Valley&#039;s Student Station","article_published_time":"2024-02-19T17:44:50+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-02-19T18:58:01+00:00","og_image":[{"width":502,"height":670,"url":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Bask0219.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Victoria Gonzalez","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Victoria Gonzalez","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/"},"author":{"name":"Victoria Gonzalez","@id":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/#\/schema\/person\/436e807e4dd8b4952bbb3f2c72aaac7b"},"headline":"Lack of heart","datePublished":"2024-02-19T17:44:50+00:00","dateModified":"2024-02-19T18:58:01+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/"},"wordCount":488,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Bask0219.jpg","keywords":["2024","Basketball","Edinburg","NEWS","SPORTS","Spring","Students","UTRGV"],"articleSection":["Basketball","Sports"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/","url":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/","name":"Lack of heart - The Valley&#039;s Student Station","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Bask0219.jpg","datePublished":"2024-02-19T17:44:50+00:00","dateModified":"2024-02-19T18:58:01+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/lack-of-heart\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Lack of heart"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/","name":"The Valley&#039;s Student Station","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/#organization","name":"The Valley&#039;s Student Station","url":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/output-onlinepngtools-scaled.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/output-onlinepngtools-scaled.png","width":2560,"height":946,"caption":"The Valley&#039;s Student Station"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/#\/schema\/person\/436e807e4dd8b4952bbb3f2c72aaac7b","name":"Victoria Gonzalez","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cd444c833eaa7f4a78eeec70dc50285492934cec153a39690eef55d09573ca0e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cd444c833eaa7f4a78eeec70dc50285492934cec153a39690eef55d09573ca0e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Victoria Gonzalez"},"url":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/author\/victoria-gonzalez\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6736,"href":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6732\/revisions\/6736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}