It\u2019s been a year of Championships for Intramural Sports at Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½, with two national flag football championships in the fall and now a national basketball championship in the spring.<\/p>\n
Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½\u2019s campus champions qualified for the national tournament by winning the \u201cSwamp Shootout\u201d tournament at the University of Florida back in March. A team of nine students traveled to the campus of North Carolina State University on April 24-26. At the national tournament, Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ took on a field of forty teams from all over the country. They began pool play with a 69-41 win over UNC Greensboro and followed that up with 53-44 win over Virginia. That advanced Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ to the elimination bracket, where they opened up with a 57-36 rout over East Carolina. In the second round, Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ had their first test of the tournament and pulled out a win against North Texas, 64-60.<\/p>\n
Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ made it to the semifinals with another win, and squared off against the University of North Carolina-Pembroke. They continued their run with a convincing 57-48 win. In the championship game against Fayetteville State, Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ shined the most as they took a 10 point lead at halftime and held on down the stretch to win 50-47 to home the trophy. Erik Nix, who led the team with 16.2 points per game, was also named tournament MVP. John Kirby was also named first-team all-tournament, for shooting 20 of 25 for the entire tournament. Greg Crenshaw was second on the team in scoring behind Nix, and Elliott Cherry led the team in assists.<\/p>\n
For more information, contact the Recreation and Wellness Center<\/a> in the Division of Student Development Enrollment Services<\/a>, at 407.823.2408.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a year of Championships for Intramural Sports at Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½, with two national flag football championships in the fall and now a national basketball championship in the spring. Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½\u2019s campus champions qualified for the national tournament by winning the \u201cSwamp Shootout\u201d tournament at the University of Florida back in March. A team of nine students traveled to the campus…","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":2855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[423,2347,3909,4468],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-2854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-life","tag-basketball","tag-intramural-sports","tag-recreation-wellness-center","tag-student-development-and-enrollment-services"],"yoast_head":"\n