{"id":23921,"date":"2023-03-22T12:12:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T16:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=23921"},"modified":"2023-03-22T13:11:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T17:11:20","slug":"greenville-county-council-honors-furman-basketball-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/greenville-county-council-honors-furman-basketball-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenville County Council honors Furman basketball team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23925\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23925\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23925 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2023\/03\/Mens-Basketball-honored-by-Greenville-County-Council2-400.jpg\" alt=\"County Council meeting\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/266;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Furman Men&#8217;s Basketball team awaits honor from Greenville County Council. Liz Seman, center, is seated with other council members.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For their historic appearance in the NCAA Basketball Tournament, the Furman University Paladins were honored by the Greenville County Council. Councilwoman and Furman University Chief of Staff Liz Seman presented a proclamation to the team during a meeting March 21. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2023\/03\/21\/live-greenville-county-council-honors-furman-basketball-team\/\">FOX Carolina<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wspa.com\/news\/greenville-county-recognizes-furman-for-ncaa-tournament-success\/\">WSPA 7News<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=2725&amp;DateTime=3%2F21%2F2023+6%3A05%3A51+PM&amp;Term=Furman&amp;PlayClip=TRUE\">WYFF News4<\/a> covered the story. Before this year&#8217;s March Madness, it had been more than 40 years since the Paladins won a berth in the NCAA tournament, and nearly 50 years since the team saw a victory in the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman Men&#8217;s Basketball was honored by the Greenville County Council for their historic appearance in the NCAA tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":23923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1569,6,90,1578,120],"tags":[1962,1697,1825],"class_list":["post-23921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news","category-president","category-wspa-7-news","category-wyff-tv","tag-furman-hoops","tag-furman-mens-basketball","tag-greenville-county-council"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23921","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=23921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}