{"id":23539,"date":"2023-03-06T22:03:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T03:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=23539"},"modified":"2023-03-07T13:54:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T18:54:19","slug":"dins-clinch-socon-championship-head-for-ncaa-brackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/dins-clinch-socon-championship-head-for-ncaa-brackets\/","title":{"rendered":"Dins are SoCon champs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dins are the 2023 Southern Conference champions and are headed to March Madness for the first time since 1980. [Read <a href=\"https:\/\/furmanpaladins.com\/news\/2023\/3\/6\/mens-basketball-champions-furman-tops-chattanooga-to-claim-socon-crown-ncaa-berth-88-79.aspx\">Furman Athletics&#8217; story<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p>The Furman University men\u2019s basketball team defeated the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 88-79 on Monday night at Harrah\u2019s Cherokee Center \u2013 Asheville in the final match of the 2023 Ingles Southern Conference Men\u2019s Basketball Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The victory earns the Paladins spot in the 2023 NCAA Men\u2019s Basketball Tournament. It will be the first time Furman will appear in the March Madness brackets since 1980.<\/p>\n<p>For more game details, statistics and photos, <a href=\"https:\/\/furmanpaladins.com\/news\/2023\/3\/6\/mens-basketball-champions-furman-tops-chattanooga-to-claim-socon-crown-ncaa-berth-88-79.aspx\">visit FurmanPaladins.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/event\/2023-ncaa-basketball-selection-sunday-watch-party\/\">Selection Sunday Watch Party<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-23556 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2023\/03\/MicrosoftTeams-image-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2023\/03\/MicrosoftTeams-image-1.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2023\/03\/MicrosoftTeams-image-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2023\/03\/MicrosoftTeams-image-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2023\/03\/MicrosoftTeams-image-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2023\/03\/MicrosoftTeams-image-1-512x288.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2023\/03\/MicrosoftTeams-image-1-1280x720.jpg 1280w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 500px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 500\/281;\" \/>Furman will be assigned its slot in the tournament on Selection Sunday, March 12. A watch party is scheduled for Timmons Arena, where the 2023 NCAA tournament brackets will be announced live on CBS.<\/p>\n<p>Doors open at 5 p.m., and the broadcast starts at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/event\/2023-ncaa-basketball-selection-sunday-watch-party\/\">Full event details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After defeating Chattanooga 88-79 in the final match of the  Southern Conference Men\u2019s Basketball Championship, the Paladins have earned a spot in the March Madness brackets for the first time since 1980.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":23552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}