{"id":61508,"date":"2025-08-12T03:06:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T03:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/61508\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T03:06:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T03:06:19","slug":"mens-basketball-heading-to-canada-for-foreign-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/61508\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Basketball Heading to Canada for Foreign Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY &#8211; Kansas City Men&#8217;s Basketball will make its first trip of the 2025-26 season in August, heading north to Toronto for a week-long foreign tour. The Roos return a pair of players from last season&#8217;s team: <a href=\"https:\/\/kcroos.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/kasheem-grady-ii\/4617\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4617\" target=\"_blank\">Kasheem Grady II<\/a> and 2023-24 Summit League Freshman of the Year <a href=\"https:\/\/kcroos.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/jayson-petty\/4614\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4614\" target=\"_blank\">Jayson Petty<\/a>. The rest of the Roos&#8217; roster will be released throughout this week.<\/p>\n<p>The team will build chemistry in Canada ahead off the upcoming season, taking on three separate Canadian universities throughout their Aug. 16-23 trip. The Roos will match up against York University, McMaster University and Toronto Metropolitan University in preparation for their 2025-26 slate. 2023-24 Summit League Coach of the Year <a href=\"https:\/\/kcroos.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/marvin-menzies\/1276\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1276\" target=\"_blank\">Marvin Menzies<\/a> and staff will look to continue building upon their success in year four, coming off the program&#8217;s first postseason win since 2017 last year.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025-26 roster and schedule will officially be released in the coming weeks, be sure to stay tuned to kcroos.com for all of the latest information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY &#8211; Kansas City Men&#8217;s Basketball will make its first trip of the 2025-26 season in August,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-61508","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\/61508","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=61508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}