{"id":1960,"date":"2024-10-30T22:42:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T02:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2024-10-30T22:42:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T02:42:16","slug":"millers-pull-away-to-take-tipoff-classic-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/2024\/10\/30\/millers-pull-away-to-take-tipoff-classic-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"Millers Pull Away to Take Tipoff Classic Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>LEESBURG, FL<\/strong> &#8211; John Melvin (LA) led from start to finish in putting away Southeast Christian 99-49 and winning the NSAC Tipoff Classic Wednesday night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Millers (2-1 overall, 1-0 NSAC) led 40-20 at the half and continued to gain momentum throughout the game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an honor to be a part of the first conference win in school history,&#8221; JMU coach Romel Bryant said after the game. &#8220;Seeing these players win the Tipoff Classic and develop as players is very humbling.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaimauri Hodges led the Millers with 21 points. Tayshaun Colomb added 15 points and Kyle Roach contributed 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the first NSAC game for both teams who joined the league this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We had a rough time tonight,&#8221; said Eagles coach Dwayne Walker. &#8220;We were missing a big, and we also had a lack of aggressive play on both sides of the ball. Way too many turnovers. I know our men will turn this around this upcoming week in Miami.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Southeast (0-2, 0-1) travels back to South Florida for a rematch against UIC on November 8 and a conference matchup with Atlantis the following day. John Melvin continues its road trip with a game at Florida College on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEESBURG, FL &#8211; John Melvin (LA) led from start to finish in putting away Southeast Christian 99-49 and winning the NSAC Tipoff Classic Wednesday night. The Millers (2-1 overall, 1-0 NSAC) led 40-20 at the half and continued to gain momentum throughout the game. &#8220;It&#8217;s an honor to be a part of the first conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,11,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jmu-la","category-news","category-southeast-christian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960","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=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1965,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions\/1965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}