{"id":7438,"date":"2020-07-30T11:33:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T18:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/?p=50000001865"},"modified":"2020-07-30T11:34:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T18:34:17","slug":"video-a-classic-look-at-long-beach-states-last-dance-in-the-2012-ncaa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/video-a-classic-look-at-long-beach-states-last-dance-in-the-2012-ncaa-tournament","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: A classic look at Long Beach State&#8217;s last dance in the 2012 NCAA Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The562.org Classic: 2012 Long Beach State Men&#039;s Basketball NCAA Tournament\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fp3cPJIc1NI?start=2&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this installment of The562.org\u2019s Classics video series, we look back at the Long Beach State&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball team&#8217;s 2012 trip to the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The opening game against New Mexico in Portland&#8217;s Rose Garden came 1,217 days after Casper Ware, Larry Anderson, TJ Robinson and Eugene Phelps played their first game for coach Dan Monson and LBSU. The \u201cFab Four\u201d had gotten close to winning the Big West Conference and finally completed the task in their senior season.<\/p>\n<p>After a relatively sloppy but exciting contest, the No. 5 Lobos edged No. 12 LBSU \u00a075-68 to end a very successful era of Beach basketball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey just made more plays, more free throws, and did the little things down the stretch better than we did,\u201d LBSU coach Dan Monson said.<\/p>\n<p>The game featured more than a handful of future NBA players and overseas professionals with LBSU\u2019s Casper Ware leading the way. The two-time Big West Player of the Year went on to play a few games with the Philadelphia 76ers and helped Melbourne United win a championship in the Australian pro basketball league.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re here because of Casper Ware, so when we leave it\u2019s going to be because of him,\u201d Monson said of giving Ware the last big shot of the game. \u201cCasper is our team and how he played at the end was indicative of us. We just didn\u2019t have enough gas to finish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This recalled highlight also includes footage of the road trip that JJ Fiddler and Tyler Hendrickson took to Portland for the game\u2014 with proof that a Red Bull headache almost took down JJ before even reaching Oregon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A loss to New Mexico in the NCAA Tournament brought an end to LBSU&#8217;s Fab Four  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":17169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2156],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[199],"class_list":["post-7438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-the562-classics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7438"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=7438"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}