{"id":10291,"date":"2011-07-07T16:28:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T23:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=10291"},"modified":"2013-12-10T15:55:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T22:55:19","slug":"lumberjack-basketball-to-host-byu-in-prescott-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/lumberjack-basketball-to-host-byu-in-prescott-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Lumberjack basketball to host BYU in Prescott Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Arizona University men&#8217;s basketball team will host NCAA powerhouse Brigham Young University\u00a0on Nov. 30 at Tim\u2019s Toyota Center in Prescott Valley.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are excited to play in Prescott against a quality BYU team that had a great run in the NCAA Tournament this past year,&#8221; said NAU head coach\u00a0<strong>Mike Adras<\/strong>.\u00a0 &#8220;It should be a great game for us to play a school that has a lot of fans in Arizona. It will be an exciting game in a beautiful venue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BYU head coach Dave Rose also is eager to showcase his team in front of fans in Prescott Valley.\u00a0&#8220;We&#8217;re excited for the\u00a0opportunity to give our fans in Arizona the opportunity to see us play,&#8221; Rose said.<\/p>\n<p>The Prescott event will be only the second meeting between the teams, with the previous game taking place in Flagstaff in 1946. The Lumberjacks won the contest by the score of 54-31.<\/p>\n<p>NAU played in Prescott Valley in 2010, defeating Alabama State 74-46. \u00a0NAU has a partnership with Yavapai College and the town of Prescott Valley to bring baccalaureate degrees within the reach of area residents.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/nau-yavapai-now-accepting-students-for-visionary-bachelors-degree-programs\/\">NAU-Yavapai<\/a>\u00a0welcomed its first class of freshmen to campus last fall.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the event will go on sale in September and will be available for purchase through\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettix.net\/\">GetTix.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/lumberjack-basketball-to-host-byu-in-prescott-valley\/\">The Northern Arizona University men&#8217;s basketball team will host NCAA powerhouse Brigham Young University\u00a0on Nov. 30 at Tim\u2019s Toyota Center in Prescott Valley. &#8220;We are excited to play in Prescott against a quality BYU team that had a great run in the NCAA Tournament this past year,&#8221; said NAU head coach\u00a0Mike Adras.\u00a0 &#8220;It should be&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}