{"id":1508,"date":"2025-03-11T16:38:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T21:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2025-03-12T12:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T17:58:10","slug":"womens-and-mens-basketball-teams-both-going-to-national-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/2025\/03\/11\/womens-and-mens-basketball-teams-both-going-to-national-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s and Men’s Basketball Teams Both Going to National Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tavian Cruse, freshman forward, gets ready to pass the ball in game against Allen County Community College. (Photo by Audrey Hook.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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JCCC Women’s Basketball Takes the #4 Seed For the National Tournament<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite losing in the tournament last week, the Cavalier Women’s Basketball team is the #4 seed for the NJCAA National Tournament, taking place in Joplin, MO.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Last Friday, the Cavs faced off against Highland Community College once again, this time with higher stakes. In the NJCAA Region 6 Tournament, JCCC fell short by just five points, suffering a heartbreaking loss.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c[Our] effort was really good,” said women\u2019s basketball head coach, Ben Conrad. “Our kids played really hard. These nights will happen though, we really struggled to put the ball in the hole.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Cavs will play at 9 a.m. (CT) on Tuesday, March 18. They will play the winner of the #13 vs. #20 game.<\/p>\n

JCCC Men\u2019s Basketball Snags the #11 Seed For the National Tournament\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last Saturday, the men\u2019s basketball team fell only one point short in their battle against KCKCC, in the NJCAA Region 6 Championship, with the final score being 75-74. Despite this tough loss, they need to quickly pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get ready to head to Danville, Ill. for the National Tournament that they have just claimed the #11 seed for.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Cavs will play at 8 p.m. (CT) on Monday, March 17 against Macomb Community College, the #6 seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Women’s team will play at 9 a.m. (CT) on Tuesday, March 18. They will play the winner of the #13 vs. #20 game. The Men’s team will play at 8 p.m. (CT) on Monday, March 17 against Macomb Community College, the #6 seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1008,"featured_media":1509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8],"tags":[76,50,77],"ppma_author":[126],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-ben-conrad","tag-jccc-basketball","tag-jccc-womens-basketball"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Seth Lampton","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/author\/slampto1\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/files\/2025\/03\/Mens-Basketball-Tournament-21-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[{"link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/author\/slampto1\/","display_name":"Seth Lampton"}],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Featured<\/a>","Sports<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Featured<\/span>","Sports<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["Ben Conrad<\/a>","JCCC Basketball<\/a>","JCCC Women's Basketball<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Ben Conrad<\/span>","JCCC Basketball<\/span>","JCCC Women's Basketball<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 2 years ago","modified":"Updated 1 year ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on March 11, 2025","modified":"Updated on March 12, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on March 11, 2025 4:38 pm","modified":"Updated on March 12, 2025 12:58 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":126,"user_id":1008,"is_guest":0,"slug":"slampto1","display_name":"Seth Lampton","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f2e586f19d0db2ca6e0f54eba249df3470c40ec567565bda6e765754ffc14994?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","first_name":"Seth","last_name":"Lampton","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/files\/2025\/03\/Mens-Basketball-Tournament-21-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions\/1512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}