{"id":220560,"date":"2021-03-04T21:54:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T03:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=220560"},"modified":"2021-03-04T23:51:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T05:51:59","slug":"jimmie-mens-bb-defeats-dordt-thurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=220560","title":{"rendered":"Jimmie Men&#8217;s BB Defeats Dordt, Headed to Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday<\/p>\n<p>UJ Men&#8217;s Basketball<\/p>\n<p>GPAC Quarter Finals<\/p>\n<p>Jamestown 89 Dordt 68<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-220572\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Jimmies-Men-BB-2021-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Jimmies-Men-BB-2021-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Jimmies-Men-BB-2021-431x243.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Jimmies-Men-BB-2021-311x175.jpg 311w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Jimmies-Men-BB-2021.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>KANSAS CITY, Mo. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimmiepride.com\/article\/5873\">UJ<\/a>) &#8212;<\/strong> The NAIA has announced the Opening Round matchups and sites for the 2021 NAIA Men&#8217;s Basketball National Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Jamestown (20-8 overall) received an at-large bid and\u00a0will be making their 11th\u00a0appearance at the national tournament.<\/p>\n<p>UJ is the second-seed in the three-team pod and will travel to Omaha, Neb., and face third-seed Bellevue (Neb.) in the 2020-21 NAIA Men&#8217;s Basketball National Championship Opening Round, presented by Ballogy, on Friday, March 12. They will be joined in Omaha Bracket B by LSU-Shreveport (16-1 overall), the winner of the Red River Athletic Conference regular season and postseason tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The UJ-Bellevue\u00a0winner will move on\u00a0to face LSU-Shreveport on Saturday, March\u00a013, with the winner of that game moving onto the 16-team final site from Mar. 18-23 at historic Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo.<\/p>\n<p>Jamestown&#8217;s last trip to the national tournament came in 2019, with the Jimmies advancing\u00a0to the round of 16.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\">The Jimmies gets one of 11 at-large bids to the NAIA men&#8217;s basketball national championship tournament. Opening round starts March 12\u00a0 in Omaha\u00a0 taking on Bellevue University,of Nebraska.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Jamestown_MBB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Jamestown_MBB<\/a> team has qualified for nationals! UJ is the #2 seed in the Omaha B bracket and will face Bellevue (Neb.) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/GoJimmies?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GoJimmies<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/JimmiePride?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JimmiePride<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oWOjxUsYfG\">pic.twitter.com\/oWOjxUsYfG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jimmie Athletics (@JimmieAthletics) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JimmieAthletics\/status\/1367643605037416452?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday UJ Men&#8217;s Basketball GPAC Quarter Finals Jamestown 89 Dordt 68 KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UJ) &#8212; The NAIA has announced the Opening Round matchups and sites for the 2021 NAIA Men&#8217;s Basketball National Tournament. The University of Jamestown (20-8 overall) received an at-large bid and\u00a0will be making their 11th\u00a0appearance at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":220572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220560"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220584,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220560\/revisions\/220584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/220572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}