{"id":29928,"date":"2025-02-27T07:36:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T15:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/?p=29928"},"modified":"2025-02-27T07:36:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T15:36:03","slug":"mens-basketball-downed-by-skagit-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/2025\/02\/27\/mens-basketball-downed-by-skagit-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Men’s Basketball Downed By Skagit Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In their final regular season home game, Bellevue College men’s basketball fell 78-61 at Courter Family Athletic Pavilion to Skagit Valley. The visiting Cardinals were just too hot from the field, making roughly 50% of their shots from both the three-point line, and overall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the 3:45 mark in the first half, Skagit Valley found themselves up 36-18, but Bellevue came to life as the ‘dogs went on an 11-0 run to put themselves back in the game, down just 38-29 at halftime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, in the second half, the Bulldogs quickly fell further behind and could not cut the lead down to anything less than 10 points, when Skagit Valley led 55-45 following a Darek Usitalo bucket. Skagit Valley’s shooting prevented any type of comeback by Bellevue as the Cards shot 52% from the field, including a whopping 63% from three-point range, as they made 10 of 16 to account for 30 of the team’s 40 second half points. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Usitalo had the hot hand for the Bulldogs, shooting eight-for-10 from the field and four-for-five from the line for 20 points. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bulldogs clinched second place in the North Region with a 10-4 record, and open up next weekend at the NWAC Championships in Pasco. Bellevue will play the West Region third seed Green River at 8 p.m. Sat. Mar. 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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