{"id":893167,"date":"2026-09-15T18:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T18:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/893167\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T18:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T18:54:10","slug":"newman-what-to-expect-in-prep-girls-basketball-for-2026-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/893167\/","title":{"rendered":"Newman: What to expect in prep girls basketball for 2026-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"775\" height=\"475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/7A9F738D-B7AE-4BBE-BC61-FC8D12375E46.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Ayla Keefe has already announced her commitment to Davidson. (Doug Leclerc)<\/p>\n<p>The rapid rise of Newman in the New England basketball food chain has been defined largely by the emergence of the boys program as two-time defending Class AAA champions.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t let that overshadow the growth taking place on the girls side.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals have taken flight quickly in just three years, establishing themselves as tough competitors in Class AAA. But with a huge influx of new talent behind some well-known returning stars, is Newman ready to truly contend for a championship?<\/p>\n<p>I attended the Cardinals&#8217; open gym on Sept. 9 to see how the fall is progressing. Here&#8217;s what to expect from the Cardinals when we get to winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ayla Keefe has already announced her commitment to Davidson. (Doug Leclerc) The rapid rise of Newman in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,213130,85],"class_list":["post-893167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-newman","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893167","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=893167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}