{"id":30649,"date":"2025-12-19T08:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/?p=30649"},"modified":"2025-12-19T08:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:55:14","slug":"mens-basketball-tops-pierce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/2025\/12\/19\/mens-basketball-tops-pierce\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Basketball Tops Pierce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/12\/BC-Men-vs-HIghline-88-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"BC Basketball\" class=\"wp-image-28556 img-fluid \" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/12\/BC-Men-vs-HIghline-88-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/12\/BC-Men-vs-HIghline-88-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/12\/BC-Men-vs-HIghline-88-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/12\/BC-Men-vs-HIghline-88.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">BC Athletics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bellevue College basketball played their final game before the holiday break defeating Pierce College on the road, 78-60. Will Woodward led  Bellevue in both scoring and rebounds, putting in 20 points on nine-for-17 shooting and 14 rebounds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first half, BC built a comfortable 44-25 lead thanks to a rebounding advantage of 29-13 over the Raiders, coupled with a 28% shooting clip from Pierce&#8217;s offense. Josiah Johnson had the hot hand in the breakaway first half for Bellevue scoring 15 of his 19 points in the half. He was a perfect five-for-five from the line as well and had five rebounds. Johnson&#8217;s dunk early on at 10:43 pushed Bellevue to a 16-12 lead which started the distancing of the Bulldog lead after Pierce hung tough with the &#8216;dogs for the first part of the game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bellevue now has the longest win streak in the conference at 10, and are now 10-2 in non-conference play. Bellevue also jumped from 10th to 5th in the NWAC Coaches&#8217; Poll; the biggest mover along with SW Oregon CC. Bellevue will host Lower Columbia on Tue. Dec. 30 at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BC Athletics Bellevue College basketball played their final game before the holiday break defeating Pierce College on the road, 78-60. Will Woodward led Bellevue in both scoring and rebounds, putting in 20 points on nine-for-17 shooting and 14 rebounds. In the first half, BC built a comfortable 44-25 lead thanks to a rebounding advantage of <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/2025\/12\/19\/mens-basketball-tops-pierce\/\">...more about Men&#8217;s Basketball Tops Pierce<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[32,8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-mens-basketball","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30649","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\/3358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30650,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30649\/revisions\/30650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}