{"id":3579,"date":"2015-02-27T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/19\/furman-to-play-wofford-tonight-for-conference-title-game-on-espn2\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:34:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:34:22","slug":"furman-to-play-wofford-tonight-for-conference-title-game-on-espn2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-to-play-wofford-tonight-for-conference-title-game-on-espn2\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman to play Wofford tonight for NCAA tournament bid; game on ESPN2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/furman-basketball.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16858 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/furman-basketball.jpg\" alt=\"furman-basketball\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 225px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 225\/300;\" \/><\/a>No. 10 seed Furman rallied from an 11-point second half deficit to upset No. 3 seed Mercer and earn a spot in Monday night&#8217;s championship game of the Southern Conference Men&#8217;s Basketball Championship.\u00a0 The Paladins will face top-seed Wofford in the title game, which will air live on ESPN2 at 7 p.m., with an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament on the line.\u00a0 Monday&#8217;s game can also be heard on the Furman IMG Sports Network on flagship station WGOG 96.3 FM and Fox Sports 1440 AM with play-by-play voice Dan Scott.\u00a0 Read more at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/furmanpaladins.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/2014-15\/releases\/20150309k356cv\">FurmanPaladins.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. 10 seed Furman rallied from an 11-point second half deficit to upset No. 3 seed Mercer and earn a spot in Monday night&#8217;s championship game of the Southern Conference Men&#8217;s Basketball Championship.  The Paladins will face top-seed Wofford in the title game, which will air live on ESPN2 at 7 p.m., with an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament on the line.  Monday&#8217;s game can also be heard on the Furman IMG Sports Network on flagship station WGOG 96.3 FM and Fox Sports 1440 AM with play-by-play voice Dan Scott.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579","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=3579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}