{"id":2602,"date":"2025-07-26T23:08:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T03:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2025-07-26T23:08:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T03:08:28","slug":"nsac-all-stars-claim-south-american-cup-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/2025\/07\/26\/nsac-all-stars-claim-south-american-cup-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"NSAC All-Stars Claim South American Cup Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SANTA RITA DO SUPACAI, BRAZIL<\/strong> &#8211; Sam Benton, Jr. scored 22 points and grabbed four rebounds in leading a team of New South Athletic Conference men&#8217;s basketball all-stars to a 70-59 win over CETAF in the prestigious Sula Basquete South American Cup championship game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team trailed at halftime 38-35, only the second time they had fallen behind in the weeklong event, but turned up the defensive intensity in the second half, holding a talented CETAF squad to 21 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The All-Stars won their three round-robin games by an average of 33 points before facing stiffer competition in the knockout rounds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The guys played like DAWGS!&#8221; said proud head coach Vando Becheli, who initiated and led the team in his home country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is such a proud moment for our conference,&#8221; said commissioner Mike Davis. &#8220;These young men sacrificed to get there and compete, and they did so with poise and honor. I&#8217;m proud of every one of them, as well as for Coach Vando and Coach Frankie Hernandez. For them to have this moment is what the NSAC is all about.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA RITA DO SUPACAI, BRAZIL &#8211; Sam Benton, Jr. scored 22 points and grabbed four rebounds in leading a team of New South Athletic Conference men&#8217;s basketball all-stars to a 70-59 win over CETAF in the prestigious Sula Basquete South American Cup championship game. The team trailed at halftime 38-35, only the second time they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602","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=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2605,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions\/2605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}