{"id":157259,"date":"2026-03-08T21:36:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T21:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/157259\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T21:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T21:36:28","slug":"queens-university-earns-ncaa-tourney-berth-in-first-year-eligible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/157259\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens University earns NCAA tourney berth in first year eligible"},"content":{"rendered":"

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Chris Ashby<\/a> made 10 3-pointers and scored 34 points to lead Queens University<\/a> to an NCAA berth in its first year of eligibility with a 98-93 win over Central Arkansas<\/a> in the Atlantic Sun tournament despite 49 points by Camren Hunter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The third-seeded Royals (21-13) of Charlotte, North Carolina, survived a late fourth-quarter collapse and Hunter’s heroics to reach the NCAA tournament in its fourth season of Division I play.<\/p>\n

Queens had an 11-point lead with 3:25 remaining in regulation but couldn’t handle the Bears’ full-court pressure, turning the ball over five times while Hunter went on a 20-point scoring binge to tie the game at 82.<\/p>\n

Ashby scored the first five points of overtime and the Royals kept the lead, making 9 of 10 free throws including two more by Ashby for a 95-90 edge.<\/p>\n

All of Ashby’s shots came from beyond the arc, finishing with a tourney record 10 made 3s on 19 attempts. Jordan Watford<\/a> added 19 points, Nasir Mann<\/a> 14 and Yoav Berman<\/a> 10 with Avantae Parker<\/a> collecting 10 rebounds to go with eight points.<\/p>\n

Hunter bested his career high by 16 points, hitting 17 of 30 shots, including 8 of 12 on 3-pointers on his way to his tournament-record total. Ty Robinson<\/a> added 16 points and Javion Guy-King<\/a> 10 for the Bears (22-12), who were also seeking their first NCAA berth.<\/p>\n

The teams combined for 74 3-point attempts, Queens making 16 of 38 and Central Arkansas 15 of 36.<\/p>\n

Queens had a six-point lead in the first half before Central Arkansas closed the final 5\u00bd minutes on an 12-2 run to take a 34-30 lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Chris Ashby made 10 3-pointers and scored 34 points to lead Queens University to an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-157259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}