Shreveport - The Centenary men's basketball team has been selected as Centenary Athletics' "Team of the Week" after the third-seeded and host Gents defeated the Colorado College Tigers by a score of 83-76 to win the 2024 SCAC Men's Basketball Championship title on Sunday afternoon at the Gold Dome.

The championship is the first for the Gents since 2020 and secures them the SCAC's automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Championship where they will face Nebraska Wesleyan University on Friday, March 1, at 5:05 p.m. in the first round at Calgaard Gym inside the Bell Center on the campus of Trinity University in San Antonio.

The Gents (17-11) and the Prairie Wolves (23-4) will play the first game of the day followed by Trinity (23-3) facing the University of Texas at Dallas (18-9) in game two at approximately 7:35 p.m. Centenary and Nebraska Wesleyan will meet for the first time in history. The winners of Friday's games will meet at 7:35 p.m. on Saturday. Centenary is making its second appearance in the NCAA Tournament and first since 2020 when the Gents lost a heartbreaker to UT-Dallas in Richardson, Texas by a score of 83-81.

Senior G Tykeem Singleton (Fort Worth, Texas) was named the SCAC Championship MVP after he poured in a career-high 33 points in Sunday's title game and became just the fifth player in SCAC history to score at least 30 points in the championship game

Relive the Gents' SCAC title victory here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/mbkb/2023-24/releases/Gents_Basketball_-_2024_SCAC_Tournament_Champs

See the complete Gents' season schedule here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/mbkb/2023-24/schedule

Live stats and live video stream are available for all Centenary home contests.

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