{"id":504555,"date":"2026-02-26T04:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/504555\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T04:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:41:08","slug":"jones-mcnair-reach-milestones-as-mens-basketball-claims-78-63-win-over-holy-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/504555\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones, McNair Reach Milestones as Men&#8217;s Basketball Claims 78-63 Win Over Holy Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON \u2013 Highlighted by 20-point performances from junior <a href=\"https:\/\/goterriers.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/michael-mcnair\/26606\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"26606\" target=\"_blank\">Michael McNair<\/a> and sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/goterriers.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/ben-defty\/26603\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"26603\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Defty<\/a>, the Boston University men&#8217;s basketball team rolled to a 78-63 victory over Holy Cross Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Terriers (14-16, 9-8 PL) shot 55.8 percent from the field and limited the Crusaders (10-20, 5-12 PL) to 40.4 percent to give head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/goterriers.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/joe-jones\/8338\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8338\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Jones<\/a> his program record-breaking 248th career victory. McNair reached two milestones behind his 10th 20+ point performance of the season, as he not only broke a 95-95 deadlock with John Papale (&#8217;16) to set a new single-season record for made 3-pointers at BU but also became the first Terrier to reach 500+ points since 2021-22.<\/p>\n<p>MORE INFO TO COME&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON \u2013 Highlighted by 20-point performances from junior Michael McNair and sophomore Ben Defty, the Boston University men&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-504555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}