Njcaa

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The NJCAA junior college National Tournament field is set...

Hill College, which spent some time ranked #1 this season lost in their district playoff finals - but..
they were fortunate and got an at-large bid the the Nationals....# a 12-seed

There are 24 teams with the top 8 seeds getting a bye and the bottom 16 teams playing a 1st round to them pair up with the eight bye-teams

http://www.njcaa.org/Teams/mbasketball/2014-15/2015%20DI%20MBB%20Championship%20Bracket%20-%20Original.pdf

AJ Riley's John A. Logan College won their district and are in as a 10-seed

http://www.njcaa.org/sports_regionalChampionship.cfm?category=Region%2FDistrict%20Championship&sid=4&divid=1&slid=2

Hill's Stefan Zecevic played well down the stretch and finished with the following averages..
6.1 ppg, 5.8 rpg, and shot 59% from the field

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Here's the schedule of games for the National junior college tourney starting next Monday

http://columbiadailyherald.com/sports/college/national-junior-college-men-s-basketball-tournament-schedule

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The NJCAA National Tourney is underway and Vincennes won their first game Monday

Vincennes 90 - Cochise 60

AJ Patty had a monster game 11-15, 27 pts, 8 reb
Mychal Mulder 20 pts, 8 rebs
Charles Foster 6 pts, 6 asst
Everette Clemons 11 assists! .. and 7 rebs

Hill College (Tramique Sutherland's team last year) won last night 85-83, Tyrell Bellot-Green 26 pts, Jemerrio Jones 19 pts/16 rebs!, Stefan Zecevic scoreless

John A. Logan lost their first game last night 76-66 to Cape Fear
Martavian Payne 14 pts, AJ Riley 14 pts, 4 rebs, Russell Woods 8 pts/11 rebs


The NJCAA DII Championship begins tomorrow in Danville, IL
John Wood, Desmoines Area, & Lakeland are in the tourney

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Vincennes loses to South Plains

Benji Bell, Brandon Austin, and Jalen Jackson all had tremendous games for Northwest Florida State

Hill College wins & advances

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In Division II NJCAA John Wood Community College Blazers (23-11) in Quincy is turning some heads...
(They are not a juco athletic power and only sponsor four sports - MBB, WBB, Baseball & Softball)

they won a spot in the National Tourney as an unranked team
but have proceeded to knock off two higher seeds including the #1 ranked team in all of DII juco, Schoolcraft!



In DI - Hill College has made it to the Final Four with a one point win, 73-72, over Holmes College -
Marcus Johnson 25 pts, 7 reb, 6 asst
Jemerrio Jones 17 ps/13 rebs
Tyrell Bellot-Green 13 pts
Stefan Zecevic played but was scoreless/2 rebs

Hill College plays South Plains (who knocked off Vincennes & AJ Patty) in today's semifinals, NW Florida plays Georgia Highlands in the other semi.
South Plains has a guy Emmanuel Omogbo who is averaging 17ppg/10rpg but has stepped it up to 17 ppg & 16 rpg in the playoffs!
NW Florida is the team that has a bunch of shooters & scorers that Geno went to Florida to watch.
Their team averages 90 ppg & four of their guys are double digit scorers or shoot well from 3-pt

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John Wood advances and will play for the DII National Title
UNI recruit Aarias Austin had a good game

NW Florida & South Plains advance in DI
Hill College's Jemarrio Jones had 29 pts, 19 rebs
both games went OT with some controversy