California Baptist will make its debut in the NCAA Division I men\u2019s basketball tournament Friday against fourth-seeded Kansas in an East Regional game in San Diego, the NCAA announced Sunday.<\/p>\n
The 13th-seeded Lancers qualified for the tournament for the first time in their fourth season of eligibility with a 63-61 victory over Utah Valley in the championship game of the Western Athletic Conference tournament Saturday night in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
Dominique Daniels Jr. made a 3-point basket with 17 seconds to play to give California Baptist the lead for good in a game in a game that featured 12 lead changes and 11 ties.<\/p>\n
Forward Isaac Davis missed a potential game-tying alley-oop dunk with two seconds to play for the Wolverines (25-8) in front of a crowd announced at 1,511 at Orleans Arena.<\/p>\n
California Baptist (25-8) enters the tournament with a six-game winning streak. The Jayhawks (23-10) are coming off a 69-47 loss to Houston in a semifinal of the Big 12 Tournament on Friday night in Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California Baptist will make its debut in the NCAA Division I men\u2019s basketball tournament Friday against fourth-seeded Kansas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101176,7,9,8,3258,21172,9923,2424,17819,9591,12967],"class_list":["post-221360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-baptist","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-debut","tag-division","tag-face","tag-friday","tag-kansas","tag-ncaa","tag-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}