{"id":41054,"date":"2026-02-13T15:55:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=41054"},"modified":"2026-03-27T16:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T20:27:07","slug":"basketball-great-bob-pettit-remembers-frank-selvy-54-on-sec-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/basketball-great-bob-pettit-remembers-frank-selvy-54-on-sec-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball great Bob Pettit remembers Frank Selvy &#8217;54 on SEC Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a documentary about Southeastern Conference basketball history that aired on <a href=\"https:\/\/insight.tveyes.com\/public\/media-center\/4991e0cd-5f52-4bd1-9a6c-16cf6945b050\/b7fc39bb-cac7-4e85-a0cc-2a8d84338187\">ESPN&#8217;s SEC Network<\/a>, hoops legend Bob Pettit of Louisiana State University remembers another legend, Furman University&#8217;s Frank Selvy who made history when he scored 100 points in a 1954 game against Newberry College. SEC network included vintage film of Selvy and Furman&#8217;s campus from the early 1950s. ABC affiliate <a href=\"https:\/\/insight.tveyes.com\/public\/media-center\/4991e0cd-5f52-4bd1-9a6c-16cf6945b050\/748099a7-5e91-4064-b59b-ede02e990532\">WUTR in Utica, New York<\/a>, also mentioned Selvy&#8217;s feat on the game&#8217;s Feb. 13 anniversary. Until that contest, Pettit and Selvy were running neck and neck in points per game during their senior year. See related Furman Athletics story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-basketball-great-frank-selvy-passes-away-at-91\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>TV links are temporary and typically expire after 90 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pettit and Selvy &#8217;54 were virtually tied in points per game until Selvy scored 100 points in a single game against Newberry College Feb. 13, 1954. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":41059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,1991,6,3513],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-espn","category-in-the-news","category-sec-network"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41054","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=41054"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41718,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41054\/revisions\/41718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}