{"id":8829,"date":"2026-03-14T21:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/?p=8829"},"modified":"2026-03-14T21:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:17:08","slug":"historic-season-comes-to-an-end-blazers-fall-to-trinity-in-sweet-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/historic-season-comes-to-an-end-blazers-fall-to-trinity-in-sweet-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic season comes to an end; Blazers fall to Trinity in Sweet 16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Piper Wright and Aaron Heller\/\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hood College men&#8217;s basketball ended its historic season Saturday in the Sweet 16&nbsp;with an 88-71&nbsp;loss to No. 1 Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Blazers had a slow start, allowing the Bantams to go on a 12-0 run early in the first half. The offense never got going, and Hood trailed Trinity 46-35 at halftime.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hood continued to struggle against Bantams&#8217; third-ranked defense, although a 10-point run early in the second half brought the Blazers to within striking distance. The Blazers trailed 57-47 with 12 minutes remaining in the game, but came no closer.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Junior guard Jevon Yarbrough led the team with 28 points, and graduate forward Garrett Cox added 16.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Blazers finished the season 26-4, winning the MACC championship and making school history with the Sweet 16 appearance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Piper Wright and Aaron Heller\/\/ Hood College men&#8217;s basketball ended its historic season Saturday in the Sweet 16&nbsp;with an 88-71&nbsp;loss to No. 1 Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. The Blazers had a slow start, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/historic-season-comes-to-an-end-blazers-fall-to-trinity-in-sweet-16\/\" title=\"Historic season comes to an end; Blazers fall to Trinity in Sweet 16\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":8828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[580],"tags":[261,7,1039],"class_list":["post-8829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-featured","tag-blazers","tag-hood-college","tag-ncaa-tournament"],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8831,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8829\/revisions\/8831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblueandgrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}