{"id":2854,"date":"2025-10-26T15:25:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T19:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/?p=2854"},"modified":"2025-10-26T15:25:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T19:25:56","slug":"apprentice-tops-coaches-poll-for-third-straight-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/2025\/10\/26\/apprentice-tops-coaches-poll-for-third-straight-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Apprentice Tops Coaches Poll for Third Straight Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the third straight year, Apprentice is the choice of the league’s coaches to come out on top in the NSAC men’s basketball standings in 2025-26. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Builders, fresh off back-to-back USCAA national championships, received all but one possible first place vote in a poll of New South basketball coaches. Second-year coach Michael Gainey returns five players from last year’s team including All-American Donovan Means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lighthouse Christian, the defending conference champion, returns two-time conference MVP Eddie Brown and was voted to finish second. Mid-Atlantic Christian was selected third and received the other first-place vote. Atlantis and Beacon round out the top five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025-26 NSAC Men’s Basketball Coaches Poll:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Apprentice (78 votes) (Seven first place votes)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Lighthouse Christian (64)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Mid-Atlantic Christian (57) (1)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Atlantis (51)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Beacon (43)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Barber-Scotia (38)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. SC Central Christian (29)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Southeast Christian (26)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Millennia Atlantic (23)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Westgate Christian (17)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. URBE University (14)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Image courtesy Katelyn Olson\/@shotsbyk8lyn<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    For the third straight year, Apprentice is the choice of the league’s coaches to come out on top in the NSAC men’s basketball standings in 2025-26. The Builders, fresh off back-to-back USCAA national championships, received all but one possible first place vote in a poll of New South basketball coaches. Second-year coach Michael Gainey returns […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2854","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\/2854","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=2854"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2859,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions\/2859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}