{"id":1501,"date":"2024-03-12T21:04:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T01:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2024-03-12T21:05:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T01:05:09","slug":"survive-and-advance-apprentice-holds-on-to-clinch-spot-in-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/2024\/03\/12\/survive-and-advance-apprentice-holds-on-to-clinch-spot-in-national-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Survive and Advance! Apprentice Holds On to Clinch Spot in National Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PETERSBURG, Va. –<\/strong> The Apprentice School men’s basketball team is potentially just 40 minutes away from the first men’s basketball national title in more than two decades after knocking off Bryant & Stratton-Albany Tuesday afternoon 69-60.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game was nip-and-tuck all the way through as the Bobcats held a one-point lead at halftime, 32-31. The Builders answered, however, going on an 8-0 run to take the lead, 42-38. Albany eventually brought the game back to a 55-55 tie, but the Builders never surrendered the lead again, scoring the next four points and then the final six of the day to clinch their spot in the national championship game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donovan Means<\/a><\/dfn> led Apprentice with 17 points, while Adrion Wall<\/a><\/dfn> had 14 points. Karree Smith<\/a><\/dfn> put up 13 as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the win, the Builders will play for the USCAA Division I National Championship tomorrow at 12 p.m. at Virginia State University’s Multipurpose Center against third-seeded Lyon. Tickets are still available at basketball.theuscaa.com, while a live stream and stats will be available as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story and image courtesy Apprentice Athletics<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PETERSBURG, Va. – The Apprentice School men’s basketball team is potentially just 40 minutes away from the first men’s basketball national title in more than two decades after knocking off Bryant & Stratton-Albany Tuesday afternoon 69-60. The game was nip-and-tuck all the way through as the Bobcats held a one-point lead at halftime, 32-31. The Builders […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apprentice","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","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=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}