{"id":225669,"date":"2025-03-08T15:44:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T20:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/?p=225669"},"modified":"2025-03-10T09:46:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T13:46:19","slug":"red-hawks-advance-in-ncaa-tournament-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/2025\/03\/08\/red-hawks-advance-in-ncaa-tournament-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Hawks Advance in NCAA Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montclair State University\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball teams advanced to the Round of 32 in the NCAA Division III Tournament on Friday, with each team winning its opening round game.<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s team advanced with a <a href=\"https:\/\/montclairathletics.com\/news\/2025\/3\/8\/mens-basketball-mens-basketball-uses-second-half-to-power-past-utica-in-ncaa-tournament-first-round.aspx\">79-57 victory<\/a> over Utica University behind 20 points from senior guard <a href=\"https:\/\/montclairathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/mike-jackson\/22151\">Mike Jackson<\/a> and 19 points from junior forward <a href=\"https:\/\/montclairathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/jacob-morales\/22370\">Jacob Morales<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Hawks will take on <a href=\"https:\/\/wnegoldenbears.com\">Western New England University<\/a> Saturday, March 8 at 5:45 p.m. at Panzer Athletic Center on the Montclair campus in the Round of 32.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/brackets\/basketball-men\/d3\/2025\">View the 2025 NCAA Division III Men\u2019s Interactive Tournament Bracket<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The women\u2019s team topped Christopher Newport University in a <a href=\"https:\/\/montclairathletics.com\/news\/2025\/3\/7\/womens-basketball-womens-basketball-shocks-3-9-christopher-newport-in-ncaa-tournament-first-round-67-64.aspx\">67-64 upset victory<\/a> Friday night behind 27 points from freshman forward <a href=\"https:\/\/montclairathletics.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/alyssa-craigwell\/22374\">Alyssa Craigwell<\/a>. The win is the first NCAA Tournament victory for the program since 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Hawks will take on <a href=\"https:\/\/geneseoknights.com\">SUNY Geneseo<\/a> at 7 p.m. at The Catholic University of America in the Round of 32, also on March 8.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/brackets\/basketball-women\/d3\/2025\">View the 2025 NCAA Division III Women\u2019s Interactive Tournament Bracket<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information or to livestream the games, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/montclairathletics.com\">montclairathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/\/ Output tags as a list for Google Analytics custom dimension\nwindow.MSU_TagList = [\"Functional Announcements\"];\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball teams move on to Round of 32 Saturday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":225644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[444],"class_list":["post-225669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-functional-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225670,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225669\/revisions\/225670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}