{"id":33436,"date":"2004-02-17T12:12:29","date_gmt":"2004-02-17T16:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=33436"},"modified":"2015-03-27T11:54:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T15:54:30","slug":"nescac-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2004\/02\/17\/nescac-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochadel earns NESCAC honors; basketball teams prepare for playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/02\/hochadel_emerson2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"297\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/02\/hochadel_emerson2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"hochadel_emerson2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Betsy Hochadel was selected as the  New England Small College Athletic Conference Women\u2019s Basketball Player  of the Week by the conference on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Hochadel &#8217;05 (Portland, Maine) led Bates to a 3-0 week, averaging 15  points and 6.3 rebounds per game while hitting over 60% of her shots  from the floor and over 90% of her free throw attempts. She recorded her  second career double-double with 17 points and 10 rebounds in an 85-73  overtime win over Williams on Friday, then scored 19 points on 8-for-11  shooting in an 80-44 win over Middlebury to clinch a tie for second in  the final NESCAC standings.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Bobcats (17-7, 7-2 NESCAC) earned the No. 3 seed in the NESCAC  Championship and will host No. 6 seed Amherst (11-13, 3-6) in the  quarterfinal round on Saturday at 1 p.m. Bates defeated the Lord Jeffs  72-46 in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/02\/rivera_williams.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/02\/rivera_williams-180x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"rivera_williams\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The game, originally scheduled for a 3 p.m. start, was moved to 1  p.m. to allow Bates fans the opportunity to travel to Brunswick in time  for the men&#8217;s NESCAC quarterfinal with Bowdoin.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth-seeded Bobcats (17-7, 5-4) will face the Polar Bears for  the third time this season. Bates defeated Bowdoin 87-56 at Alumni  Gymnasium in early December, but the No. 4 seeded Polar Bears (16-8,  6-3) won the game which counted in the NESCAC standings, 62-55, two  weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NESCAC SCHEDULE<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Women&#8217;s Quarterfinal at Bates<br \/>\nSaturday, Feb. 21, 1 p.m.<br \/>\n<\/strong>No. 6 Amherst (11-13, 3-6)\u00a0vs.<br \/>\nNo. 3 Bates (17-7, 7-2), 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Men&#8217;s Quarterfinal at Bowdoin<br \/>\nSaturday, Feb. 21, 4 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\nNo. 5 Bates (17-7, 5-4) vs.<br \/>\nNo. 4 Bowdoin (16-8, 6-3), 4 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betsy Hochadel was selected as the New England Small College Athletic Conference Women\u2019s Basketball Player of the Week by the conference on Monday afternoon.<\/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":[5873,9311],"class_list":["post-33436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-maine-and-new-england","tag-mens-basketball","tag-womens-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33436","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=33436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90779,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33436\/revisions\/90779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}