{"id":170131,"date":"2026-03-21T05:38:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T05:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/170131\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T05:38:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T05:38:20","slug":"queens-university-falls-to-no-2-purdue-in-ncaa-tournament-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/170131\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens University falls to No. 2 Purdue in NCAA Tournament debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ST. LOUIS (WBTV) &#8211; The historic season for the Queens University Royals came to an end on Friday night after they lost their first-ever men\u2019s NCAA tournament basketball game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The No. 15-seeded Queens University was matched up with the No. 2-seeded Purdue Boilermakers on Friday, March 20. The Boilermakers used a pair of 10-0 runs to cruise to a 104-71 win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Purdue jumped out to a 58-36 lead with 16:27 left to play and led by at least 20 the rest of the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Read &#8211;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2026\/03\/20\/no-12-high-point-upsets-no-5-seed-wisconsin-programs-first-ever-ncaa-tournament-win\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2026\/03\/20\/no-12-high-point-upsets-no-5-seed-wisconsin-programs-first-ever-ncaa-tournament-win\/\">No. 12 High Point upsets No. 5 seed Wisconsin for program\u2019s first ever NCAA tournament win<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Royals were led in scoring by Jordan Watford and Nasir Mann, the younger brother of Charlotte Hornets guard Tre Mann. Each had 10 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Despite not having a Cinderella run in this year\u2019s tournament, the Royals won the Atlantic Sun Tournament to earn a spot in the big dance. It was the Royals\u2019 first year of postseason eligibility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Queens University hung around for much of the first half against Purdue and were within five points, trailing 35-30, with just under three minutes left to play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Read &#8211;&gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2026\/03\/20\/no-11-virginia-commonwealth-upsets-no-6-tar-heels-first-round-after-trailing-by-19\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2026\/03\/20\/no-11-virginia-commonwealth-upsets-no-6-tar-heels-first-round-after-trailing-by-19\/\" target=\"_blank\">No. 11 seed VCU overcomes 19-point deficit to upset No. 6 seed Tar Heels<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">However, the Boilermakers would go on their first 10-0 run to make it a double-digit lead at halftime. The Royals trailed 45-33 after Chris Ashby drained a three with time running out in the first half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Read &#8211;&gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2026\/03\/19\/top-ranked-duke-survives-first-round-scare-against-no-16-siena\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2026\/03\/19\/top-ranked-duke-survives-first-round-scare-against-no-16-siena\/\" target=\"_blank\">Top-ranked Duke survives first round scare against No. 16 Siena<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WBTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS (WBTV) &#8211; The historic season for the Queens University Royals came to an end on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[63551,63552,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-170131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-march-madness","tag-ncaa-tournament","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\/170131","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=170131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}