{"id":157316,"date":"2026-03-08T22:48:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/157316\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T22:48:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:48:30","slug":"queens-university-mens-basketball-team-makes-history-with-ncaa-tournament-bid-wsoc-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/157316\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens University men\u2019s basketball team makes history with NCAA tournament bid \u2013 WSOC TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Queens University men\u2019s basketball team is heading to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">On Sunday afternoon, the team won the Atlantic Sun Tournament Championship, which grants them an automatic bid into the March Madness bracket. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">Queens beat the number one seed, the University of Central Arkansas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">A week from Sunday, they will find out who they play in the first round of the tournament. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">WATCH: Fans asked to leave as Catawba County referee calls off high school basketball game<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/d1hfln2sfez66z.cloudfront.net\/02-20-2026\/t_7c5973b65f2444dab9a147b76f39ec34_name_HD_3_CATA_H.jpeg\"  width=\"800\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-1htor29-0 jibCgM image-metadata\">Fans asked to leave as Catawba County referee calls off high school basketball game <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Queens University men\u2019s basketball team is heading to the NCAA Tournament for the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[64975,64978,64976,64981,64982,17169,17181,64977,61317,21112,12394,64979,610,9,24,12,64980,63,122,124,123,1115],"class_list":["post-157316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-bunker","tag-bunker_hill","tag-catawba_county","tag-catawpa_county_school_district","tag-catawpa_county_schools","tag-channel_9","tag-channel_nine","tag-dave_faherty","tag-eyewitness","tag-high","tag-hill","tag-kim_parsons","tag-local","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newton_conoverhan","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157316","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=157316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}