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Morgan Swaim | Staff Writer<\/span><\/p>\n Nationally ranked number three, the Wolves travelled to Alaska this past weekend, from March 2-3, to take care of business. After a strong regular season performance, it wasn\u2019t a surprise to see Western win the Men\u2019s GNAC Basketball Championships. After the team collected two wins in the two nights, to secure a conference championship, the Wolves have put away 22 straight opponents.<\/span> Those who\u2019d like to attend can purchase either a three-day tournament pass or a single ticket. Tournament passes are $30, while a single game ticket is $5 for students and $10 for seniors. <\/span> Contact the author at mswaim16@wou.edu<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Photo by: wouwolves.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Morgan Swaim | Staff Writer Nationally ranked number three, the Wolves travelled to Alaska this past weekend, from March 2-3, to take care of business. After a strong regular season performance, it wasn\u2019t a surprise to see Western win the Men\u2019s GNAC Basketball Championships. After the team collected two wins in the two nights, to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1030,"featured_media":7299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/span>Last Friday, March 2, the team was able to defeat Seattle Pacific in the second round of the GNAC Championships, 93-70. Seniors Tanner Omlid and Vince Boumann were highly efficient, combining for 40 points; Omlid lead the way with 23, Boumann <\/span>\u2014<\/span> who collected tournament MVP honors, scored 17 points.<\/span>
\n<\/span>During the game on Saturday, March 3, against national tournament bound St. Martin\u2019s, the team was able to secure their second GNAC Championship win in three years. In a defensive battle, the Wolves pulled away with a 65-55 win.<\/span>
\n<\/span>After the wins, the team was informed that they would be hosting the West Region Championship for the second time in three years.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Heading into the regional tournament, the Wolves earned the ability to play at home after receiving a number one seed. The team\u2019s record currently stands at 29-1 as the postseason begins.<\/span>
\n<\/span>They will be looking to continue the winning streak through a possible three game stretch this following week. The first tournament game is March 9, at 7:30 p.m. against eighth seeded Point Loma.<\/span>
\n<\/span>If the team continues to progress throughout the weekend, they will play for an Elite 8 bid on March 12, Monday, at 7:00 p.m in the final regional game. All these games would be played at home.<\/span>
\n<\/span>In other team-related news, Omlid was announced as the GNAC Player of the Year after an impressive season; he averaged 13.6 points per game, finished first in steals and had the second most blocks in the conference.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>All games will also be streamed live on gnac.tv.<\/span><\/p>\n