{"id":1318298,"date":"2020-02-18T14:08:24","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T21:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=993729"},"modified":"2020-02-18T14:08:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T21:08:24","slug":"coal-ridges-gerber-moves-on-to-next-round-of-online-voting-in-ncaa-final-4-hoops-shoot-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/coal-ridges-gerber-moves-on-to-next-round-of-online-voting-in-ncaa-final-4-hoops-shoot-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal Ridge\u2019s Gerber moves on to next round of online voting in NCAA Final 4 hoops shoot contest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Coal Ridge senior sharp-shooter Austin Gerber is in a social media fan-vote contest to be picked for the NCAA Final Four 3-point shooting contest in Atlanta April 5.<\/strong>
Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

It\u2019s on to the second round of voting for Coal Ridge senior basketball standout Austin Gerber to represent at the Big Dance.<\/p>\n

Gerber won the first round of voting that concluded Tuesday morning, advancing to the quarterfinals in the American Family Insurance #DreamFearlessly fan vote contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The social-media campaign will select one of the eight high school players from across the country to compete the NCAA Final Four 3-point shooting contest in Atlanta on April 5.<\/p>\n

Thanks to some huge local and national support, the Titans\u2019 sharp-shooter won the first round with nearly 65% of the vote to 35% for Conifer\u2019s Elijah Cook. He will now be up against Kyle Hubbuch from Sahuaro High School in Tucson, Ariz.<\/p>\n

Gerber is shooting 46%<\/a> from beyond the 3-point arc this season, having scored 314 points on the season heading into Tuesday night\u2019s game against the Roaring Fork Rams. Overall, he\u2019s shooting at a 49% clip, including 85% on 62 attempts from the free-throw stripe.<\/p>\n

The #DreamFearlessly contest lets fans decide an \u201cunder-the-radar\u201d 3-point shooter to join select participants from some of the more elite programs in the country to showcase their skills in a shooting competition during the NCAA Final Four.<\/p>\n

The contest began with 16 of the top statistical high school 3-point shooters in the nation in a bracket-style competition to determine the final #DreamFearlessly participant. There\u2019s a separate contest for girls 3-point shooters and for the prep boys slam dunk competition.<\/p>\n

Fans can vote for Gerber <\/a>once a day starting Wednesday until 11 a.m. Feb. 26. Each week, the field narrows until fans are asked to vote on the final two contestants between March 6-13.<\/p>\n

jstroud@postindependent.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Coal Ridge senior sharp-shooter Austin Gerber is in a social media fan-vote contest to be picked for the NCAA Final Four 3-point shooting contest in Atlanta April 5.Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent It\u2019s on to the second round of voting for Coal Ridge senior basketball standout Austin Gerber to represent at the Big Dance. Gerber […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-05 18:44:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}