{"id":224319,"date":"2026-01-06T23:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/224319\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T23:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:18:08","slug":"bluejay-senior-kiani-lockett-out-indefinitely-with-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/224319\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluejay Senior Kiani Lockett Out Indefinitely With Knee Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Omaha, Neb.\u00a0\u2013 Creighton guard <a href=\"https:\/\/gocreighton.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/kiani-lockett\/8637\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8637\" target=\"_blank\">Kiani Lockett<\/a> is expected to miss the remainder of the 2025-26 season with a knee injury, head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/gocreighton.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/jim-flanery\/4380\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4380\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Flanery<\/a> announced on Tuesday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of Creighton&#8217;s two fourth year seniors, Lockett appeared in each of the Bluejays&#8217; first four games. The highlight came when Lockett scored 25 points to lead Creighton to a 83-74 win at Drake on Nov. 9. She suffered the injury to her right knee late in the game with Northern Iowa on Nov. 20.<\/p>\n<p> Creighton is back in action on Thursday, January 8 when the Bluejays face Marquette in a road contest on truTV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Omaha, Neb.\u00a0\u2013 Creighton guard Kiani Lockett is expected to miss the remainder of the 2025-26 season with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-224319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}