{"id":30901,"date":"2026-02-17T14:44:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=30901"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:46:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:46:57","slug":"two-teams-still-have-chance-to-share-regular-season-national-trail-conference-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/basketball\/30901-two-teams-still-have-chance-to-share-regular-season-national-trail-conference-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Teams Still Have Chance To Share Regular-Season National Trail Conference Championship"},"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>BY KURT BECKER<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Heading into local and area boys\u2019 basketball action tonight (Tues., Feb. 17), two teams still have a chance to share in the regular-season championship for the National Trail Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting in the driver\u2019s seat is two-time defending champion St. Anthony, which is 7-0 in league play and hosts a 5-2 Altamont club this evening. The Bulldogs have won 23 consecutive regular-season NTC matches and have not lost a league showdown at The Enlow Center since December 19, 2014, when they fell to Dieterich by a score of 56-43.<\/p>\n<p>Cumberland totes a record of 7-1 in its first year in the conference, with the Pirates scheduled to host St. Anthony on Friday in the regular-season finale for both schools.<\/p>\n<p>Dieterich finished conference play recently at 7-2, while Altamont could finish with the same mark with wins this week over both St. Anthony and Windsor\/Stewardson-Strasburg. But both Dieterich and Altamont already have been eliminated from a chance at the NTC regular-season title.<\/p>\n<p>A loss by St. Anthony tonight would mean both the Bulldogs and Pirates would clash on Friday with 7-1 league records to decide who wears the crown, while a win by St. Anthony this evening would create a Friday matchup where St. Anthony at 8-0 would face a 7-1 Cumberland squad. In the latter scenario, a St. Anthony triumph on Friday would give the Bulldogs an undisputed title at 9-0, while a Cumberland victory would force a shared title between the two schools.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY KURT BECKER Heading into local and area boys\u2019 basketball action tonight (Tues., Feb. 17), two teams still have a chance to share in the regular-season championship for the National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-30901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","tag-sports-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Two Teams Still Have Chance To Share Regular-Season National Trail Conference Championship - 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