{"id":554,"date":"2022-12-22T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/?p=554"},"modified":"2022-12-22T08:00:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T13:00:57","slug":"apprentice-sweeps-cruzin-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/2022\/12\/22\/apprentice-sweeps-cruzin-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Apprentice Sweeps Cruzin&#8217; Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. &#8211;<\/strong> The Apprentice School men&#8217;s basketball team went 2-0 in the Cruzin&#8217; Classic this week, taking down third-ranked Atlantis Tuesday before routing Florida Palms on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday, the USCAA sixth-ranked Builders jumped out to an early lead before Atlantis raced back to take the lead midway through the first half. Apprentice (7-5 overall, 3-0 NSAC) would use an 11-0 run to retake the lead and take it to halftime, up 33-29. In the second half, the Builders pulled away early, leading by as many as 15 and held on to knock off the No. 3 team in the national coaches poll by a final score of 73-60.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday, Apprentice found themselves in a tight game at halftime, leading 38-37, before clamping down the defense in the second half and sprinting away with an 86-59 win over Florida Palms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gobuilders.com\/sports\/mbkb\/2022-23\/bios\/eley_vershawn_w79u\">Shawn Eley<\/a> averaged 23.5 points and 6.5 rebounds per outing in the tournament to lead the way for Apprentice, while <a href=\"https:\/\/gobuilders.com\/sports\/mbkb\/2022-23\/bios\/smith_karree_k9bj\">Karree Smith<\/a> put up 16.5 points per game. Against Florida Palms, <a href=\"https:\/\/gobuilders.com\/sports\/mbkb\/2022-23\/bios\/eason_jayden_b67b\">Jayden Eason<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gobuilders.com\/sports\/mbkb\/2022-23\/bios\/wall_adrion_b1ok\">Adrion Wall<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gobuilders.com\/sports\/mbkb\/2022-23\/bios\/goode_clifton_df2j\">Clifton Goode<\/a> put up double figures as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Builders will now rest through the holiday break before retaking the floor in 2023 against Appalachian Bible at home on January 6 at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Story courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/gobuilders.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gobuilders.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. &#8211; The Apprentice School men&#8217;s basketball team went 2-0 in the Cruzin&#8217; Classic this week, taking down third-ranked Atlantis Tuesday before routing Florida Palms on Wednesday. Tuesday, the USCAA sixth-ranked Builders jumped out to an early lead before Atlantis raced back to take the lead midway through the first half. Apprentice (7-5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apprentice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","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=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}