{"id":492,"date":"2020-10-12T22:05:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T22:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=492"},"modified":"2020-10-13T20:21:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T20:21:53","slug":"hail-to-the-victors","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/news\/hail-to-the-victors\/","title":{"rendered":"Hail to the Victors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Men\u2019s Basketball honored for its 2020 Big Sky Conference title<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>By Eastern Magazine<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I<\/span><span class=\"s1\">n May, the Spokane County Board of Commissioners recognized the Eastern men\u2019s basketball team in a proclamation made during a remotely-held meeting. The citation recognized EWU for winning the Big Sky Conference outright championship, honored Mason Peatling for his conference MVP win, and gave a shout-out to Peatling, Jacob Davison and Kim Aiken, Jr. for their selections to the All-Big Sky team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-494 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/10\/MensBB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1176\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/10\/MensBB.jpg 1176w, https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/10\/MensBB-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/10\/MensBB-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/10\/MensBB-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1176px) 100vw, 1176px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"> The Big Sky Conference title was the fourth in school history, but was ultimately bittersweet. The coronavirus pandemic ended the team\u2019s hopes of traveling to Boise, Idaho, for the Big Sky Tournament, where a win would have sealed the team\u2019s third NCAA Tournament berth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"> \u201cWe handled business and put ourselves in a position to play in the NCAA Tournament,\u201d says head coach Shantay Legans, the Big Sky Coach of the Year who in June was named one of the \u201cTop 40 Coaches Under 40\u201d by ESPN. \u201cWe felt good every time we stepped on the court, and worked hard to get there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men\u2019s Basketball honored for its 2020 Big Sky Conference title By Eastern Magazine In May, the Spokane County Board of Commissioners recognized the Eastern men\u2019s basketball team in a proclamation made during a remotely-held meeting. The citation recognized EWU for winning the Big Sky Conference outright championship, honored Mason Peatling for his conference MVP win,<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/news\/hail-to-the-victors\/\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":484,"featured_media":494,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-492","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","stories_categories-athletics","stories_categories-campus","stories_categories-sports","stories_categories-students","stories_tags-fall-winter-2020"],"acf":{"featured_video":"","subheading":"","display_byline":false,"display_date_published":false,"Links":false,"Resources":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/492\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}