{"id":157527,"date":"2026-03-09T06:04:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/157527\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T06:04:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:04:47","slug":"queens-outlasts-central-arkansas-in-overtime-to-claim-asun-title-first-ncaa-tournament-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/157527\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens outlasts Central Arkansas in overtime to claim ASUN title, first NCAA tournament appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WBTV) &#8211; For the first time in school history, Queens is going dancing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Royals took several heavyweight punches from 1-seed Central Arkansas, but held on for a thrilling 98-93 win in overtime to capture the program\u2019s first ASUN Championship Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The win punches the team\u2019s first ticket to the NCAA Tournament in the program\u2019s first year of postseason eligibility since transitioning to the DI level four years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Chris Ashby fueled the offense in this win. The Queens grad student tallied a career-high 34 points on a career-high 10 3-pointers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Freshman Jordan Watford added 19 off the bench, while Nasir Mann finished with 14 points and nine rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Queens led by 11 with over three minutes to play, but Central Arkansas did not make the home stretch easy for the Royals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Camren Hunter nearly single-handedly willed the Bears to a win late in the second half. He scored 49 points and made several clutch shots down the stretch to push the game into overtime. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">But Queens regrouped and maintained composure in overtime, getting out to a seven-point lead that would prove too much for Central Arkansas to overcome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Now the Royals will wait until Selection Sunday on March 15 to learn when, where, and who they will face in their first-ever March Madness game. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WBTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WBTV) &#8211; For the first time in school history, Queens is going dancing. The Royals took&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-157527","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\/157527","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=157527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}