{"id":1471,"date":"2024-02-29T11:28:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T16:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2024-03-04T14:14:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T19:14:04","slug":"blue-lights-forfeits-will-not-participate-in-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/2024\/02\/29\/blue-lights-forfeits-will-not-participate-in-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Lights Forfeits, Will Not Participate in Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Blue Lights College, the third seed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/2023-nsac-mens-basketball-tournament\/\">2024 NSAC Men&#8217;s Basketball Tournament<\/a> beginning tomorrow, informed the conference on Thursday morning that it will not be making the trip to Newport News due to institutional reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I am extremely disappointed,&#8221; said conference commissioner Mike Davis. &#8220;Blue Lights was the first conference team to beat Apprentice in the past two years, and they bring an exciting brand of basketball. Their absence will be felt. I&#8217;m particularly saddened that their outstanding players will not get the opportunity to battle for a championship. I am sorry they have not been set up for success.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Thoroughbreds&#8217; scheduled quarterfinal game against Central International, scheduled for Friday at 6:00 pm, will be considered a forfeit, and the Cardinals will automatically advance to face Apprentice in Saturday&#8217;s semifinals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday&#8217;s other quarterfinal, Atlantis versus Mid-Atlantic Christian, will go on as scheduled at 4:00 pm. All <a href=\"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/2023-nsac-mens-basketball-tournament\/\">games<\/a> will take place at the Apprentice Athletic Center in Newport News, Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Lights College, the third seed in the 2024 NSAC Men&#8217;s Basketball Tournament beginning tomorrow, informed the conference on Thursday morning that it will not be making the trip to Newport News due to institutional reasons. &#8220;I am extremely disappointed,&#8221; said conference commissioner Mike Davis. &#8220;Blue Lights was the first conference team to beat Apprentice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blue-lights-college","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1491,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions\/1491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}