{"id":28290,"date":"2026-01-21T10:43:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=28290"},"modified":"2026-01-21T10:43:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:43:59","slug":"90th-annual-ntc-tournament-preview-8-cowden-herrick-beecher-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/basketball\/28290-90th-annual-ntc-tournament-preview-8-cowden-herrick-beecher-city\/","title":{"rendered":"90th Annual NTC Tournament Preview \u2013 #8 Cowden-Herrick\/Beecher City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><strong>#8 COWDEN-HERRICK\/BEECHER CITY BOBCATS<br \/>\nCoach: Tanner Thompson<br \/>\nRecord at Seeding: 8-11, 1-4 NTC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>by DUSTIN WHITE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A year removed from winning just eight times all season, the CHBC Bobcats had already equaled that victory total by the time they were assigned the No. 8 seed in the 90th Annual National Trail Conference boys basketball tournament. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s modest improvement for a program Coach Tanner Thompson has spent the last several years attempting to revamp on and off the court, but improvement is improvement and that\u2019s not to be overlooked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur team is competing every game as of late,\u201d said Thompson. \u201cI love how intense we have been. We are a very quick team that likes to get up and down the court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Griffin Vaughn\u2019s 13.9 points per game lead the Bobcats; the junior enjoyed a marquee moment when his buzzer-beating bucket gave CHBC a 45-44 win over visiting Neoga on Jan. 12. It was especially sweet for Thompson\u2019s crew because they\u2019d been the victim of a buzzer beater just six days prior in overtime at Shelbyville.<\/p>\n<p>Another junior, Remington Howell, checks in at 11.4 points per game, while seniors Clive Schlanser and August Cosart along with juniors Porter Lilly and Carter Dilley are all no strangers to competition on the Altamont High School floor in front of those NTC tournament crowds.<\/p>\n<p>The eight seed means CHBC will face a rematch with No. 9 Neoga in the play-in round exactly two weeks after the buzzer-beater at Beecher City. Whoever wins gets to come back the next night and tangle with top-seeded Cumberland, but that\u2019s life in the NTC and Thompson \u2013 a former Cowden-Herrick Hornet himself \u2013 knows it as well as anyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are always going to have to bring your \u2018A game\u2019 night in and night out,\u201d said Thompson. \u201cYou don\u2019t get days off in this conference.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#8 COWDEN-HERRICK\/BEECHER CITY BOBCATS Coach: Tanner Thompson Record at Seeding: 8-11, 1-4 NTC by DUSTIN WHITE A year removed from winning just eight times all season, the CHBC Bobcats had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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