{"id":23649,"date":"2023-03-13T12:50:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T16:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=23649"},"modified":"2023-03-13T12:50:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T16:50:17","slug":"fu-all-the-time-why-you-should-root-for-this-march-madness-underdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/fu-all-the-time-why-you-should-root-for-this-march-madness-underdog\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018FU All The Time\u2019: Why you should root for this March Madness underdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethan Kassel of <a href=\"https:\/\/sfstandard.com\/sports\/fu-all-the-time-why-you-should-root-for-this-march-madness-underdog\/?taid=640de9e203a4f00001a3e026&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\">The San Francisco Standard<\/a> can&#8217;t help but love the Furman University Paladins who have won a bid to the NCAA Men&#8217;s Basketball Tournament. He lays out a number of reasons why he&#8217;s fond of the team in a recent article in which he recounts the university&#8217;s early history and Furman&#8217;s move to reckon with ties to slavery. Kassel also mentions the leadership of fifth-year seniors Mike Bothwell and Jalen Slawson. But his favorite reason to love the Dins might be the edgy, yet appropriate chant, &#8220;FU All The Time!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why should basketball fans everywhere get behind the Paladins? Ethan Kassel of The San Francisco Standard spells it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":23652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,6,1937],"tags":[1697,1373,1939,1938],"class_list":["post-23649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-in-the-news","category-the-san-francisco-standard","tag-furman-mens-basketball","tag-march-madness","tag-ncaa-mens-basketball-tournament","tag-university-tradition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23649","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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}