{"id":3130,"date":"2026-03-13T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/?p=3130"},"modified":"2026-03-13T20:33:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T01:33:59","slug":"jccc-mens-and-womens-basketball-starting-natty-run-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/2026\/03\/13\/jccc-mens-and-womens-basketball-starting-natty-run-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"JCCC Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Basketball Starting Natty Run Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>(Photo by: Adalyn Sparks)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>After losing to Fort Scott Community College in the 2026 NJCAA Division 2 Plains District Tournament Semifinals, the men\u2019s basketball team was selected as an at-large bid to compete for a National Championship. Deja-vu? That\u2019s because last season, our women\u2019s team found themselves in the same position, only to go out and win it all. The men\u2019s team will have a keen eye on them as they move towards the same result.\u00a0On Monday, the 16th, the men will find themselves in Danville, IL facing off against Parkland College in the 2026 NJCAA DII Men&#8217;s Basketball National Championship Second Round. The next day, March 17th, the women will be in Hickory, NC, playing against a currently undetermined opponent in the same round. Check in with <a href=\"https:\/\/jcccathletics.com\/landing\/index\">JCCC Athletics<\/a> for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After losing to Fort Scott Community College in the 2026 NJCAA Division 2 Plains District Tournament Semifinals, the men\u2019s basketball team was selected as an at-large bid to compete for a National Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1008,"featured_media":2911,"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":[8],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[126],"class_list":["post-3130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Seth Lampton","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/author\/slampto1\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/files\/2026\/02\/Womens-Basketball-2.jpg","coauthors":[{"link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/author\/slampto1\/","display_name":"Seth Lampton"}],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/category\/sports\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Sports<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Sports<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 months ago","modified":"Updated 6 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on March 13, 2026","modified":"Updated on March 13, 2026"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on March 13, 2026 11:00 am","modified":"Updated on March 13, 2026 8:33 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\/2026\/02\/Womens-Basketball-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130","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=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3131,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions\/3131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}