READING, Pa. –\u00a0\u00a0Albright College men’s basketball opens postseason play Wednesday at home against York College.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Lions earned the two-seed in the MAC Commonwealth tournament and are riding a program-best 12-game win streak.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Their scoring has consistently improved throughout the season, averaging 81 points per game \u2014 which ranks third in the conference.<\/p>\n
Albright’s offense begins with senior guard Qadir Mitchell, one of four players averaging double-digit points.<\/p>\n
On defense, seniors Chase McWhite and Phanique Dupree both rank in the top five in rebounds per game.<\/p>\n
Albright took both meetings against York in the regular season and enters tonight 19\u20136 overall.<\/p>\n
“I think our game plan is going to remain the same” senior guard Qadir Mitchell said.<\/p>\n
“I feel like tonight’s game is going to, the winner is going to be who plays harder. York plays really hard, we play really hard. Obviously, I would feel like we’re the more talented team, but everybody will say that about their team. And I just think we just got to play hard and we’ll be fine.”<\/p>\n
“Really talented group, play really hard” added senior guard Jeremiah Stanton.<\/p>\n
“They have one of the best players in the conference, so have to be ready for them. It’s going to be a good game, but I feel like we are the more talented team. So as long as we can control our effort, energy and attitude, like, we’ll be fine.”<\/p>\n
Tip-off is at 7:00 at the Bollman Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. –\u00a0\u00a0Albright College men’s basketball opens postseason play Wednesday at home against York College.\u00a0 The Lions earned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[58068,58070,58069,128,130,129,15625],"class_list":["post-123629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-albright","tag-jeremiah-stanton","tag-qadir-mitchell","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-york-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}