{"id":26091,"date":"2017-03-06T17:36:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T00:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=26091"},"modified":"2017-03-06T17:36:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T00:36:06","slug":"uccs-womens-basketball-team-wins-first-ever-rmac-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=26091","title":{"rendered":"UCCS women&#8217;s basketball team wins first-ever RMAC championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17039358_863736897102020_7684431813879179989_o.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-26093\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17039358_863736897102020_7684431813879179989_o-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17039358_863736897102020_7684431813879179989_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17039358_863736897102020_7684431813879179989_o-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17039358_863736897102020_7684431813879179989_o-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17039358_863736897102020_7684431813879179989_o-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17039358_863736897102020_7684431813879179989_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>UCCS&#8217; women\u2019s basketball team won the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference tournament championship for the first time in program history last week, then clinched the No. 3 seed for the NCAA Division II tournament, which begins March 10.<\/p>\n<p>Lynn Plett, UCCS women&#8217;s basketball head coach, told team members that he would shave his beard if they won the RMAC championship. After Saturday night&#8217;s victory, he was clean-shaven during Sunday\u2019s selection video on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/uccswomensbasketball\/videos\/?ref=page_internal\">women\u2019s basketball Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During the regular season, the UCCS team went 23-8 and tied for second in conference standings. The Mountain Lions went from eighth in the Feb. 22 ranking to No. 3 seed at the selection party; this is the third consecutive season the women have qualified for the NCAA tournament.<\/p>\n<p>UCCS will\u00a0play No. 6 seed Eastern New Mexico in the first round of the NCAA tournament &#8211; Eastern New Mexico&#8217;s first appearance in the tournament. The team was 20-8 in the regular season. \u00a0The two teams have met twice in program history, with the Mountain Lions wining the last game 62-59 in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>See the tournament schedule here: <a href=\"http:\/\/gomountainlions.com\/schedule.aspx?path=wbball\">http:\/\/gomountainlions.com\/schedule.aspx?path=wbball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>UCCS&#8217; women\u2019s basketball team won the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference tournament championship for the first time in program history last week, then clinched the No. 3 seed for the NCAA Division II tournament, which begins <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=26091\" title=\"UCCS women&#8217;s basketball team wins first-ever RMAC championship\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":26098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17039358_863736897102020_7684431813879179989_o-300x200-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-6MP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26091"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26094,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26091\/revisions\/26094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}