{"id":152150,"date":"2026-03-30T09:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/152150\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T09:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:38:08","slug":"this-seneca-valley-grad-has-led-gannon-to-the-ncaa-division-ii-mens-basketball-final-butler-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/152150\/","title":{"rendered":"This Seneca Valley grad has led Gannon to the NCAA Division II men\u2019s basketball final \u2013 Butler Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774863488_884_.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-uuid=\"f98fd743-7b90-5d89-add9-c6e363266c04\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Gannon University men\u2019s basketball coach Easton Bazzoli is a 2013 Seneca Valley graduate. Submitted Photo<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Easton Bazzoli, a 2013 Seneca Valley graduate and current head coach of Gannon University men\u2019s basketball, has guided the Golden Knights to the NCAA Division II national championship game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Gannon (33-3) will take on Lander University (30-5) for the title at 1 p.m. Sunday at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The Golden Knights have scored at least 100 points in 13 games this season. They defeated IUP (81-74) in the Atlantic Regional championship game March 17, then dispatched Michigan Tech (75-49) in the Elite 8 and Oklahoma Baptist (98-80) in a national semifinal on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Prior to being named head coach at Gannon in April 2024, Bazzoli was an assistant coach for six years at Union University, a Division II school in Tennessee, and for one season at Gannon under head coach Jordan Fee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">In his two seasons of leading the Golden Knights, Bazzoli has compiled a record of 60-10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gannon University men\u2019s basketball coach Easton Bazzoli is a 2013 Seneca Valley graduate. Submitted Photo Easton Bazzoli, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3035,3027,3022,3042,3048,3051,1610,3030,3028,31,3029,3034,3025,136,138,137,3047,3041,3024,3045,3033,3023,3036,182,3049,3039,139,3026,28,3040,39,3031,3044,3043,3032,3050,3038,3037,3046],"class_list":["post-152150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-bruin","tag-butler","tag-butler-eagle","tag-cabot","tag-callery","tag-cherry-valley","tag-community-news","tag-connoquenessing","tag-cranberry","tag-crime","tag-east-butler","tag-eau-claire","tag-education-news","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-evans-city","tag-fairview","tag-government-news","tag-harmony","tag-harrisville","tag-high-school-sports-news","tag-karns-city","tag-local-news","tag-mars","tag-mount-chesnut","tag-news","tag-obituaries","tag-pennsylvania","tag-petrolia","tag-political-news","tag-portersville","tag-sarver","tag-saxonburg","tag-slippery-rock","tag-valencia","tag-west-liberty","tag-west-sunbury","tag-zelienople"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152150","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=152150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}