{"id":5571,"date":"2016-02-10T22:44:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T06:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/?p=5571"},"modified":"2016-02-10T22:44:18","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T06:44:18","slug":"mens-basketball-scores-huge-win-at-olympic-creeps-closer-to-playoff-contention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/2016\/02\/10\/mens-basketball-scores-huge-win-at-olympic-creeps-closer-to-playoff-contention\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Basketball Scores Huge Win at Olympic; Creeps Closer to Playoff Contention"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5370\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5370\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5370 img-fluid \" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/01\/4-Muir-K-BC-mbkb-2016-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jordan Muir-Kueng\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/01\/4-Muir-K-BC-mbkb-2016-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/01\/4-Muir-K-BC-mbkb-2016.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jordan Muir-Kueng led BC in the big win at Olympic. photo by Rich Dworkis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After starting the season in league play 0-6, many teams would throw in the towel. Bellevue&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball team has done the opposite, as they have reeled off three wins in a row and are now only one game out of a playoff berth after topping Olympic 80-72 in front of a hostile Olympic crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Down by two at halftime, BC put up 44 points with 56% shooting in the second half in a comeback win that was reminiscent of their last two pre-season wins over Yakima Valley and Highline back in early January. Foul trouble also aided BC as they drained 12-of-16 from the free throw line as compared to Olympic&#8217;s 3-of-4.<\/p>\n<p>Jordain Muir-Kueng led the &#8216;dogs with 20 points. Brian Zehr, the team&#8217;s lone returner from last year&#8217;s squad, was believed at one time to be lost for the season to injury but has bounced back and contributed 18 points and 11 rebounds. Zehr&#8217;s return has made a huge impact on the team&#8217;s turnaround. The timing couldn&#8217;t be better as Bellevue is now in their second round of league games attempting to play catch up; and are doing so with success and they are now 3-6 in league and 12-12 overall. With the third place team at 4-5, BC is now just one game out of third place. The top four earn berths to the playoffs in early March.<\/p>\n<p>Bellevue&#8217;s next game is at home on Saturday February 13 against Skagit Valley at 6:00 p.m. The game will be televised on cable channel 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Muir-Kueng led BC in the big win at Olympic. photo by Rich Dworkis. After starting the season in league play 0-6, many teams would throw in the towel. Bellevue's men's basketball team has done the opposite, as they have reeled off three wins in a row and are now only one game out of <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/2016\/02\/10\/mens-basketball-scores-huge-win-at-olympic-creeps-closer-to-playoff-contention\/\">...more about Men&#8217;s Basketball Scores Huge Win at Olympic; Creeps Closer to Playoff Contention<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"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-5571","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\/5571","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=5571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5572,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571\/revisions\/5572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}