{"id":119178,"date":"2023-03-20T10:38:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T15:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=119178"},"modified":"2023-03-20T10:38:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T15:38:22","slug":"uwm-wins-first-postseason-tournament-game-since-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/uwm-wins-first-postseason-tournament-game-since-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"UWM wins first postseason tournament game since 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Led by BJ Freeman\u2019s record-setting performance, the UWM men\u2019s basketball team beat Stetson 87-83 in overtime Sunday in the first round of the College Basketball Invitational tournament in Daytona Beach, Florida.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The victory was UWM\u2019s first in a postseason tournament since beating Oklahoma in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in 2006, the year after its run to the Sweet 16. UWM now plays Charlotte in the CBI quarterfinals at 5:30 p.m. Monday. The game will be broadcast on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flohoops.com\/\">FloHoops<\/a> and 101.7 FM The Truth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The CBI semifinals and final game will be broadcast on ESPN2 on Tuesday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Freeman scored a career high 43 points Sunday, breaking the CBI record of 39 and second in UWM history only to Von McDade\u2019s 50-point outing in 1990.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHe did have a special game and we needed every bit of it,\u201d UWM coach Bart Lundy said. \u201cThey were box-and-1 a good bit of that second half, and he was able to make play after play. BJ is a special player, and he\u2019s really given his heart and soul to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The victory came on the one-year anniversary of Lundy\u2019s hiring.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read more about the game, including quotes from Freeman and Lundy, at <a href=\"https:\/\/mkepanthers.com\/news\/2023\/3\/19\/mens-basketball-freeman-leads-the-way-as-panthers-knock-off-stetson-in-cbi-87-83.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Athletics<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/sports\/college\/uwm\/2023\/03\/19\/bj-freeman-pours-in-43-points-to-lead-uwm-over-stetson-in-ot-in-cbi\/70025979007\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Led by BJ Freeman\u2019s record-setting performance, the UWM men\u2019s basketball team beat Stetson 87-83 in overtime Sunday in the first round of the College Basketball Invitational tournament in Daytona Beach, Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3151,"featured_media":118669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[174,200],"tags":[],"section":[122,126],"display_categories":[],"related-coverage":[],"uwmnews-feed":[167],"class_list":["post-119178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-in-brief","section-campus-community","section-campus-news","uwmnews-feed-alumni-association"],"uwm_unpublish_requested":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.3 (Yoast SEO v28.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UWM wins first postseason tournament game since 2006<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Led by BJ Freeman\u2019s record-setting performance, the UWM men\u2019s basketball team beat Stetson 87-83 in overtime Sunday in the first round of the College Basketball Invitational tournament in Daytona Beach, Florida.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/uwm-wins-first-postseason-tournament-game-since-2006\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UWM wins first postseason tournament game since 2006\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Led by BJ Freeman\u2019s record-setting performance, the UWM men\u2019s basketball team beat Stetson 87-83 in overtime Sunday in the first round of the College Basketball Invitational tournament in Daytona Beach, Florida.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/uwm-wins-first-postseason-tournament-game-since-2006\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"UWM REPORT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-03-20T15:38:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2023\/03\/BB300x200-20230225_KB_MC_065.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"John G. 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