{"id":26307,"date":"2022-01-28T18:34:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T02:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/?p=26307"},"modified":"2022-01-28T18:34:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T02:34:11","slug":"mens-basketball-voted-1-in-nwac-coaches-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/2022\/01\/28\/mens-basketball-voted-1-in-nwac-coaches-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Men’s Basketball Voted #1 in NWAC Coaches’ Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bellevue College men’s basketball has reached new heights this week as the Bulldogs were named the top-ranked team in the NWAC as listed in the TicketSmarter NWAC Coaches’ Poll<\/a> released by the league office today. The Bulldogs were previously ranked second in a poll jam-packed with North Region teams.<\/p>\n

The rise of the program back to the high standards built by former legacy coaches Ernie Woods and Jeremy Eggers began last year in the covid-shortened year as the ‘dogs were 9-6, finishing just one and a half games out of first place. The year prior in 2020, the team hit an all-time low finishing 3-25 in one of the worst years in the program’s 50+ year history. This year’s top ranking is believed to be one of the biggest turnarounds in a sport program in such a short time. Much of their success this year has been the roster depth and shooting from long range, as the ‘dogs currently lead the entire NWAC in three-point goals with 154.<\/p>\n

Bellevue is currently 2-1 in league and 12-3 overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bellevue College men's basketball has reached new heights this week as the Bulldogs were named the top-ranked team in the NWAC as listed in the TicketSmarter NWAC Coaches' Poll released by the league office today. The Bulldogs were previously ranked second in a poll jam-packed with North Region teams. The rise of the program back ...more about Men’s Basketball Voted #1 in NWAC Coaches’ Poll<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":26268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[32,8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-mens-basketball","category-news","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26308,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26307\/revisions\/26308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}