{"id":13872,"date":"2020-02-20T13:20:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T18:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/vikings-basketball-teams-secure-postseason-berths\/"},"modified":"2020-02-20T13:20:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T18:20:41","slug":"vikings-basketball-teams-secure-postseason-berths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/vikings-basketball-teams-secure-postseason-berths\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings basketball teams secure postseason berths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Following the results of Wednesday&#8217;s men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s basketball games, both programs have earned a postseason berth in the 2020 NJCAA Region III Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>men&#8217;s basketball<\/strong> team earned the No. 4 seed in the upcoming NJCAA Region III postseason tournament after defeating Fulton-Montgomery, 92-68, on Feb. 19 in the McDonough Sports Complex. The No. 4 seed marks the best regular season finish for the Vikings under the seven-year tenure of Coach Mike Long. The men&#8217;s program will now wait to find out who its opponent will be on Tuesday, Feb, 25 when players will host the winner of No. 5 Corning vs. No. 12 Broome. Game time has not been confirmed as this time.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>women&#8217;s basketball<\/strong> team earned the No. 8 seed in the 2020 NJCAA Region III postseason tournament and will host No. 9 SUNY Broome on Saturday, Feb. 22. The upcoming matchup with the Hornets provides the Vikings with an opportunity at redemption as they were defeated by Broome, 66-60, earlier on Jan. 26. The game time for Saturday&#8217;s first round match up with Broome will be confirmed on Thursday, but is expected to start around 1 p.m. in the McDonough Sports Complex.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Thu, 20 Feb 2020 13:20:41 +0000 by\u00a0a.sopris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Following the results of Wednesday&#8217;s men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s basketball games, both programs have earned a postseason berth in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcement-college-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}