{"id":8447,"date":"2022-03-12T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/?p=50000003072"},"modified":"2022-03-13T08:18:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T15:18:29","slug":"buzzer-beater-lifts-long-beach-state-into-saturdays-championship-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/buzzer-beater-lifts-long-beach-state-into-saturdays-championship-game","title":{"rendered":"Buzzer-beater lifts Long Beach State into Saturday\u2019s championship game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">The Long Beach State men\u2019s basketball team is just 40 minutes away from going dancing.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Thanks to a buzzer-beater from St. Anthony alum Jadon Jones on Friday night in the Big West Tournament semifinals, the Beach will face Cal State Fullerton tonight at 8:30 p.m. on ESPN 2. If they win, they\u2019d earn the 10th trip to the NCAA Tournament in program history.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.@LBSUhoops is going to the \u2018ship!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f6pQK1NaZs\">pic.twitter.com\/f6pQK1NaZs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The562.org (@562sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/562sports\/status\/1502495044883804164?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s been a special year for the Beach, who rebounded after a slow start to claim the regular season conference championship, and have now earned a spot at the precipice of the biggest party in college sports.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s also been a special year for head coach Dan Monson, who led the team to its last NCAA trip in 2012 but who\u2019s seen some tough years in the last decade.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI can\u2019t say there\u2019s a season I\u2019ve enjoyed more than this one,\u201d Monson said after Friday\u2019s game. \u201cThis one I\u2019m cherishing because I know how hard this is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Tonight\u2019s Long Beach State game in Henderson, NV will be broadcast on ESPN2 beginning at 8:30 p.m. or fans can follow along with us on Twitter @562sports for live courtside updates from Nevada by beat writer JJ Fiddler.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/long-beach-state-ncaa-tournament-bakersfield-game<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a buzzer-beater from St. Anthony alum Jadon Jones on Friday night in the Big West Tournament semifinals, the Beach will face Cal State Fullerton tonight at 8:30 p.m. on ESPN 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":17242,"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":[9,189],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[2730],"class_list":["post-8447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-long-beach-state","tag-ncaa","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8447","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\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8447"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=8447"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}