One of Ferris State’s men’s intra­mural bas­ket­ball teams won the regional cham­pi­onship Feb. 19–21 at Western Michigan University.

The tour­na­ment con­sisted of 12 teams includ­ing Ferris. The team went 5–1 dur­ing the tour­na­ment and then man­han­dled Indiana University South Bend 50–29 in the cham­pi­onship game to claim the title. In doing so, Bulldog Michael Maupin made the All-Tournament team as he helped Ferris to the championship.

By win­ning the regional cham­pi­onship, the team has now been invited down to Nashville, Tenn. to com­pete in the National Campus Championship Series Basketball Championship. The tour­na­ment will take place April 9–11 at Vanderbilt University.

The only issue is the team is look­ing for some money from the uni­ver­sity to cover lodg­ing and trans­porta­tion expenses. Team cap­tain Nick Blue feels that if they are able to go this will be a great oppor­tu­nity to give Ferris some pub­lic­ity out­side of Michigan.

“This is a great oppor­tu­nity to rep­re­sent the uni­ver­sity and show that stu­dents can still be active in sports with­out play­ing on the var­sity team,” said Blue. n