{"id":30900,"date":"2026-02-26T08:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/?p=30900"},"modified":"2026-02-26T08:59:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:59:36","slug":"mens-basketball-wins-final-regular-season-home-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/2026\/02\/26\/mens-basketball-wins-final-regular-season-home-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Basketball Wins Final Regular Season Home Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"30728\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/01\/mayo-683x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"basketball player\" class=\"wp-image-30728 img-fluid \" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">BC Athletics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"30757\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/01\/IMG_5542-683x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"basketball player\" class=\"wp-image-30757 img-fluid \" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/01\/IMG_5542-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/01\/IMG_5542-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/01\/IMG_5542-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/01\/IMG_5542-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/01\/IMG_5542.jpeg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In another offensive display this season, the Bellevue College men&#8217;s basketball team put up 97 points in a 36 point blowout over visiting Whatcom, 97-61. Playing their final regular season home game this year, the Bulldogs were given a tough test briefly for the first ten minutes of the game, clawing back from a small deficit to finally leading for the first time 13-12 with 12:49 to go in the first half. From there on the &#8216;dogs found their rhythm as an 8-0 run with nine minutes left put BC up 30-19 following a layup by Shawn Etheridge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the second half Etheridge helped the Bulldogs push the lead into double digits again with a three pointer at 17:58 to give Bellevue a 46-36 lead. A 7-0 run from that point made it 53-36 as the blowout began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Darek Usitalo had consecutive buckets to increase the lead to 23 as BC led 65-42 with 13 minutes to go in the game. Max Mayo drained a three pointer with 11:08 remaining to increase the lead to over 30 points as the &#8216;dogs led 74-42. Mayo was four-for-five from the field including two-for-three from three point range for 11 points in the second half surge. He had 16 on the night while Will Woodward scored 17 with a team high 12 rebounds. Usitalo, playing in his final home game went out with a bang with 14 points and seven rebounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bellevue will begin post season play in the NWAC Sweet Sixteen next Wed. Mar. 4 at 4 P.M. against Yakima Valley, the East Region fourth seed. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwacsports.org\/Championship_Central_Basketball\">The tournament <\/a>will be hosted by Columbia Basin College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BC Athletics In another offensive display this season, the Bellevue College men's basketball team put up 97 points in a 36 point blowout over visiting Whatcom, 97-61. Playing their final regular season home game this year, the Bulldogs were given a tough test briefly for the first ten minutes of the game, clawing back from <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/2026\/02\/26\/mens-basketball-wins-final-regular-season-home-game\/\">...more about Men&#8217;s Basketball Wins Final Regular Season Home Game<\/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-30900","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\/30900","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=30900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30903,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30900\/revisions\/30903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}