{"id":23233,"date":"2001-11-27T08:56:40","date_gmt":"2001-11-27T12:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=23233"},"modified":"2015-03-27T11:53:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T15:53:17","slug":"basketball-host-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2001\/11\/27\/basketball-host-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#039;s basketball to host Bates-Bowdoin Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2001\/11\/ed-walker-web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2001\/11\/ed-walker-web.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Ed Walker &#039;02\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Led by a trio of 1,000-point scorers, the Bates College men&#8217;s basketball team is off to a 3-1 start in the 2001-02 season.The Bobcats host the first round of the inaugural Bates-Bowdoin Classic tournament on Saturday, Dec. 1.<!--more--> The Bates-Bowdoin Classic is a two-day event featuring the men&#8217;s basketball teams from both CBB schools, plus Thomas College and Suffolk University. Bowdoin will face Suffolk at 3 p.m. on Saturday in Alumni Gym, followed by the Bates\/Thomas game at 5 p.m. On Sunday, Dec. 2, the teams will swap opponents and venues, as the Bobcats take on Suffolk at 1 p.m.\u00a0at Bowdoin, while the Polar Bears take on Thomas at 3 p.m. in Brunswick.<\/p>\n<p>Bobcat seniors Billy Hart (Haverhill, Mass.), Ed Walker (Roxbury, Mass.) and Alex Wilson (Duxbury, Mass.) all surpassed the 1,000-point plateau for their careers as juniors last year, a feat believed to have been matched just once in NCAA Division III history. The Bobcats opened the season by winning the Wheaton College Tip-Off Classic in Norton, Mass. Bates defeated Mt. Ida College, 88-74, in the opener, before handling the host Lyons, 67-55, in the title game. Walker, who led the team with 18.5 points and 10.5 rebounds per game, was named the tournament Most Valuable Player as Bates won its first Tip-Off tournament since 1998. After dropping a tight 78-76 contest at Southern Maine, the Bobcats bounced back to easily defeat the University of New England, 110-63, on Nov. 26.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bobcats host the first round of the inaugural Bates-Bowdoin Classic men&#8217;s basketball tournament on Saturday, Dec. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[24,39,32],"tags":[1791,5873],"class_list":["post-23233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-event-highlights","category-maine-and-new-england","tag-bowdoin","tag-mens-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91141,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23233\/revisions\/91141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}