{"id":225615,"date":"2025-09-14T07:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T07:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/225615\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T07:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T07:35:14","slug":"st-joes-mens-basketball-gets-removed-from-the-vegas-players-era-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/225615\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Joe\u2019s men\u2019s basketball gets removed from the Vegas Players Era showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The St. Joseph\u2019s men\u2019s basketball team will no longer participate in this season\u2019s Players Era event in Las Vegas following Billy Lange\u2019s departure from the program, the school announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The school\u2019s participation in the made-for-NIL event that features high-major programs was tied to Lange being the men\u2019s basketball coach. Lange is longtime friends with Seth Berger, one of the event\u2019s organizers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">\u201cWhile we are obviously disappointed for our team and our fans to be removed from the Players Era Showcase, we knew from the beginning that our invitation and participation was contingent on Billy Lange being our head coach and proceeded with that risk,\u201d wrote Athletic Director Jill Bodensteiner in a press release. \u201cWe are moving on our contingency plan and are excited to announce those games soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p type-interstitial text-primary\"><b>\u00bb READ MORE: <a data-link-type=\"interstitial\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/college-sports\/st-joes\/sju-hawks-steve-donahue-mens-basketball-head-coach-20250911.html\" class=\"no-underline text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Donahue gets another shot as a college head coach, an opportunity he thought wouldn\u2019t come again<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Lange stepped down Wednesday, eight weeks before the 2025-26 season tips off, to leave for a job with the New York Knicks. St. Joe\u2019s elevated former Penn head coach Steve Donahue, hired earlier this year by Lange to be the associate head coach, as the program\u2019s new coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The Hawks had previously been placed in a side portion of the Vegas event and were scheduled to play UNLV and Syracuse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The Players Era tournament, which debuted last season, awards each participating team with a reported $1 million in NIL funds. It\u2019s unclear how much money St. Joe\u2019s was guaranteed in the side showcase event. The Hawks were also scheduled to be in the 2026 event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The canceling of two games this late in the process leaves St. Joe\u2019s with two holes on its schedule, which Bodensteiner said will be filled soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Joseph\u2019s men\u2019s basketball team will no longer participate in this season\u2019s Players Era event in Las&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":225616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,1317,1337,1338,62,122050,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-225615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-st-joes-mens-basketball-coaching-change-billy-lange","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115201502628880690","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}