{"id":157728,"date":"2026-03-09T11:08:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/157728\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T11:08:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:08:27","slug":"central-arkansas-falls-to-queens-in-asun-championship-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/157728\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Arkansas falls to Queens in ASUN Championship final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Central Arkansas saw its season come to an end Sunday with a 98-93 overtime loss to Queens University of Charlotte in the ASUN Championship Tournament final at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The Bears finished the season 22-12 overall and 15-3 in conference play.<\/p>\n<p>Central Arkansas led 34-30 at halftime, but Queens rallied in the second half to take the lead before the Bears battled back late. Camren Hunter hit a three-pointer with 27 seconds remaining and later tied the game with a layup with two seconds left to force overtime.<\/p>\n<p>In the extra period, Queens pulled away with key baskets and free throws to secure the five-point victory.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter delivered a historic performance for Central Arkansas, scoring 49 points to set an ASUN Tournament record, a UCA single-game record and a career high. He also made eight three-pointers and recorded four steals.<\/p>\n<p>Ty Robinson added 16 points with three three-pointers and two blocks, while Javion Guy-King finished with 10 points, seven rebounds and five assists. Cole McCormick pulled down seven rebounds and added two steals and a block.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter and Robinson were both named to the ASUN All-Tournament Team.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WebReadyTM Powered by WireReady\u00ae\u00a0NSI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Central Arkansas saw its season come to an end Sunday with a 98-93 overtime loss to Queens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-157728","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\/157728","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=157728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}