{"id":23599,"date":"2023-03-08T12:20:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T17:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=23599"},"modified":"2023-03-14T17:26:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T21:26:05","slug":"coach-bob-richey-named-finalist-for-coach-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/coach-bob-richey-named-finalist-for-coach-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach Bob Richey named finalist for Coach of the Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hughdurhamaward.com\/\">College Insider<\/a> reported that Furman Men&#8217;s Basketball Head Coach Bob Richey has been named a finalist for the Hugh Durham National Coach of the Year Award. The award goes to the top mid-major Division I college basketball coach. Richey led the Paladins to a 27-7 season, a share of the Southern Conference regular season title and, after beating UT Chattanooga 88-79, the SoCon Tournament Championship. The win will send Furman to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1980. The award will be announced during the NCAA championship weekend. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/furmans-richey-finalist-for-hugh-durham-coach-of-the-year\/43241411#\">WYFF 4News<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wspa.com\/sports\/college-sports\/furmans-richey-up-for-durham-honor\/\">WSPA<\/a> also reported the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hugh Durham National Coach of the Year Award goes to the top Division I men&#8217;s basketball coach at a mid-major university. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":23601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1933,6,1578,120],"tags":[1697],"class_list":["post-23599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-college-insider","category-in-the-news","category-wspa-7-news","category-wyff-tv","tag-furman-mens-basketball"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23599","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\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}