{"id":40629,"date":"2026-01-09T11:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=40629"},"modified":"2026-01-09T11:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:09:08","slug":"alex-wilkins-of-furman-mbb-featured-in-wyff-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/alex-wilkins-of-furman-mbb-featured-in-wyff-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Wilkins of Furman MBB featured in WYFF story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until this season, no other freshman has started for the Paladins in Bob Richey&#8217;s nine-year tenure as head coach of Furman Men&#8217;s Basketball. <a href=\"https:\/\/furmanpaladins.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/alex-wilkins\/7265\">Alex Wilkins<\/a>, a 6&#8217;5&#8243; guard from Mattapan, Massachusetts, led the team to an unbeaten record in December, something that hasn&#8217;t happened since 1978. Wilkins spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/furman-freshman-guard-alex-wilkins-shining-in-freshman-season\/69929134\">WYFF News 4&#8217;s<\/a> Julia Morris about why he chose Furman University and his predictions for the postseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men&#8217;s Basketball standout Alex Wilkins, a freshman starter, speaks to WYFF News 4&#8217;s Julia Morris about why he chose Furman and his predictions for the postseason. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":40630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,6,3508],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-in-the-news","category-wyff-news-4"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40629","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=40629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40633,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40629\/revisions\/40633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}