{"id":30864,"date":"2026-02-19T08:04:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/?p=30864"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:04:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:04:39","slug":"mens-basketball-pull-away-from-olympic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/2026\/02\/19\/mens-basketball-pull-away-from-olympic\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Basketball Pull Away From Olympic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/01\/Culver2-683x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"basketball player\" class=\"wp-image-30716 img-fluid \" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/01\/Culver2-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/01\/Culver2-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/01\/Culver2-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/01\/Culver2-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/01\/Culver2.jpeg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">BC Athletics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bellevue College men&#8217;s basketball had to work hard to fight off visiting Olympic College, eventually winning 109-80 at Courter Family Athletic Pavilion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After building a comfortable 51-38 halftime lead, the Rangers fought back giving Bellevue one of their toughest battles in weeks as they closed the gap to within five at 65-60 with 12:39 to go in the game. Olympic would stay within single digits until the Bulldogs offense took off as Will Woodward converted three quick points to push the lead into double digits at 77-65 with 9:35 remaining.  From there on the Bulldogs went on a 9-0 run and suddenly had a 21 point lead on a Shawn Etheridge jumper with 6:56 to go. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caden Culver, who had the magic touch all night, put the &#8216;dogs at the century mark with a three pointer to give Bellevue a 100-79 lead then broke loose for a layup and another three pointer to push the lead to 26. Culver missed one shot the entire night and was seven for eight from the field including a perfect three for three from three point land. He led Bellevue with 21 points. Sawyer Cottrell was also on fire from long range making five of seven from three point range for 19 points. Woodward chipped in 17 points in the paint and yanked down a team high eight rebounds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bulldogs are nearing the finish line for regular season play and will play for the region title this Saturday in a showdown at Skagit Valley. Tipoff is set for 4 P.M. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BC Athletics Bellevue College men's basketball had to work hard to fight off visiting Olympic College, eventually winning 109-80 at Courter Family Athletic Pavilion. After building a comfortable 51-38 halftime lead, the Rangers fought back giving Bellevue one of their toughest battles in weeks as they closed the gap to within five at 65-60 with <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/2026\/02\/19\/mens-basketball-pull-away-from-olympic\/\">...more about Men&#8217;s Basketball Pull Away From Olympic<\/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-30864","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\/30864","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=30864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30865,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30864\/revisions\/30865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}