{"id":3600,"date":"2018-02-23T10:08:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T15:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=3600"},"modified":"2018-02-23T10:08:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T15:08:06","slug":"maroons-to-crash-the-burg-in-odac-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=3600","title":{"rendered":"Maroons to Crash the \u2018Burg in ODAC Tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Garrett Ruggieri<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coming off an incredible nine-game win streak to end the regular season, the RC Maroons men\u2019s basketball team (18-7, 11-5 ODAC) enter the ODAC tournament as the number two seed, only behind Randolph Macon (18-7, 12-4 ODAC) by one conference win. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With this stellar regular season, the Maroons were granted a first-round bye in the tournament and will face off against number seven seed Lynchburg College on Friday, Feb. 23 at 6 p.m. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These two teams have faced off twice this season, both squads having a game in front of their home crowd as well as on the road; both road teams won. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lynchburg came to the Cregger Center and outlasted the Maroons on Charles Moir court in a 90-85 overtime battle. The following matchup proved to be more satisfying for the Maroons, as the men entered their house and coasted by Lynchburg 100-74 victory in dominating fashion. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Junior forward Josh Freund played at a high level in both meetings, posting 29 and 17, while junior guard CJ Miles provided 19 and 15. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Lynchburg, forward Connor Schroder led the team in both games with 24 and 17. In the second meeting, Roanoke was fueled by shooting 50% from beyond the arc, tying a school record with 18 three pointers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this quarterfinal matchup, only one team can move on. The lights will be bright, and fans from both schools will be in attendance at the Salem Civic Center. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students can receive free ticket vouchers for the game from the info desk in Colket. Make sure to bring a Roanoke College ID card when arriving at the Civic Center to ensure free entry.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Garrett Ruggieri Coming off an incredible nine-game win streak to end the regular season, the RC Maroons men\u2019s basketball team (18-7, 11-5 ODAC) enter the ODAC tournament as the number two seed, only behind Randolph Macon (18-7, 12-4 ODAC) by one conference win. With this stellar regular season, the Maroons were granted a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}