{"id":30857,"date":"2015-03-15T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/st-johns-suspends-f-obekpa-for-2-weeks-2\/"},"modified":"2015-03-15T15:49:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T15:49:00","slug":"st-johns-suspends-f-obekpa-for-2-weeks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/st-johns-suspends-f-obekpa-for-2-weeks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"St. John&#8217;s suspends F Obekpa for 2 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queens, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; St. John&#8217;s shot blocker Chris Obekpa was suspended for two weeks for violating team rules, Red Storm coach Steve Lavin announced Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Lavin did not say what rule or rules Obekpa broke.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All of the young men associated with our program are held to standards consistent with the aims and mission of our university,&#8221; Lavin said in a statement. &#8220;Accountability is tied to the decision making of our student- athletes. It is our hope Chris will learn from this experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-10 Obekpa is among the nation&#8217;s best shot blockers, averaging 3.1 in 30 games this season, including 24 starts. The junior from Nigeria also averages 5.8 points and 7.0 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>The suspension would include the first two weeks of the NCAA Tournament. He is not eligible to play again until March 29.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Storm (21-11) were knocked out of the Big East Tournament on Thursday in a loss to Providence in the quarterfinals. Obekpa had nine rebounds, four points and one block in the 74-57 loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queens, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; St. John&#8217;s shot blocker Chris Obekpa was suspended for two weeks for violating team rules, Red Storm coach Steve Lavin announced Sunday. Lavin did not say what rule or rules Obekpa broke. &#8220;All of the young men associated with our program are held to standards consistent with the aims and mission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ncaa-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}