{"id":33407,"date":"2004-02-29T11:01:19","date_gmt":"2004-02-29T15:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=33407"},"modified":"2015-03-27T11:54:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T15:54:29","slug":"basketball-tournaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2004\/02\/29\/basketball-tournaments\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#039;s, women&#039;s basketball teams fall to top-ranked teams in NESCAC Tournaments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/02\/hochadel_defense.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/02\/hochadel_defense-203x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"hochadel_defense\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bates  College men&#8217;s basketball team fell to one No. 1 team on Saturday, and  the women suffered the same fate on Sunday as both teams were eliminated  from the New England Small College Athletic Conference Championships  over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The women advanced to the championship game with a 60-51 win over  Wesleyan on Saturday. On Sunday, the team rallied from a 30-11 halftime  deficit to force overtime with Bowdoin, the nation&#8217;s top-ranked team.  The Bobcats led 47-43 early in the extra period, but the Polar Bears  scored the final eight points of the game to win, 51-47.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Bowdoin, now 26-0, claimed the conference&#8217;s automatic NCAA Tournament bid, while Bates finished the season 19-8.<\/p>\n<p>The men&#8217;s basketball team fell to Williams, 94-86, in the semifinal  round on Saturday. The Bobcats finished the season 18-8, tying the  program record for wins in a season. The team also set a record for  3-pointers in a season with 268, shattering the previous record by 60.<\/p>\n<p>For more on Bates Athletics, including complete game stories from the weekend, be sure to visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sports.xml\">https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sports.xml<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bates College men&#8217;s basketball team fell to one No. 1 team on Saturday, and the women suffered the same fate on Sunday as both teams were eliminated from the New England Small College Athletic Conference Championships over the weekend.<\/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":[24,32],"tags":[5873,6368,9311],"class_list":["post-33407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-maine-and-new-england","tag-mens-basketball","tag-nescac-championships","tag-womens-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33407","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=33407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90771,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33407\/revisions\/90771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}