{"id":23847,"date":"2023-03-20T12:37:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T16:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=23847"},"modified":"2023-03-20T12:42:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T16:42:37","slug":"furman-fans-spread-support-after-loss-to-san-diego-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-fans-spread-support-after-loss-to-san-diego-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman fans spread support after loss to San Diego State"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the minutes leading up to and after round of 32 play in March Madness, The Greenville News shot photos and spoke to Furman University students and staff gathered at Paladin Stadium and a packed Yee-Haw Brewing Company in downtown Greenville. After a stunning win over the University of Virginia Cavaliers in the first round, the Paladins were outmatched in the meeting with the San Diego State Aztecs on Saturday, March 18. Reporter Joanna Johnson and photographer McKenzie Lange captured the drama for the article that appeared in the Independent Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Local TV news station WSPA 7News<\/a> also covered the watch party at Yee-Haw Brewing and spoke to several students.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been over 40 years that we\u2019ve made it this far, I\u2019m proud,\u201d said Nathan Ofotokun, a junior at Furman.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really exciting, especially it being my senior year,” said Delilah Evelyn ’23. “I think everyone talking about this year, every time I see my graduation year, it\u2019s going to be like, oh my gosh, that was the year we were in March Madness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sophomore Rob McCracken said, \u201cWe\u2019re kind of like the Bad News Bears here, I don\u2019t even really think we\u2019re supposed to be in March Madness. We pulled through, this is crazy, it\u2019s been 40 years since this has happened.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Local media outlets cover a “sea of purple” as Furman fans gather at Yee-Haw Brewing Company and Paladin Stadium for the second round of March Madness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":23853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,6,1952,27,1578],"tags":[1373,1953,1954],"class_list":["post-23847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-in-the-news","category-independent-mail","category-student-life","category-wspa-7-news","tag-march-madness","tag-ncaa","tag-watch-parties"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23847","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=23847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}