{"id":41336,"date":"2026-03-10T14:50:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=41336"},"modified":"2026-03-27T16:07:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T20:07:30","slug":"news-outlets-celebrate-furmans-socon-tournament-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/news-outlets-celebrate-furmans-socon-tournament-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"News outlets celebrate Furman&#8217;s SoCon Tournament victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several news outlets cover Furman Men&#8217;s Basketball victory in the Southern Conference tournament that closed March 9 with a 76-61 rout versus top-seeded East Tennessee State University. The Paladins&#8217; win at the SoCon final earns the team a bid to the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>See more on <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/furman-east-tennessee-state-score-bf5051c3327520df9e8afa91b834c5fa\">Associated Press<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/story?id=48158634&amp;_slug_=furman-beats-east-tennessee-state-socon-title-ncaa-berth\">ESPN<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/team\/_\/id\/231\/furman-paladins\">ESPN highlights<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wspa.com\/sports\/college-basketball-ncaam\/furman-claims-another-socon-crown\/\">WSPA 7News<\/a>, which hosted several clips, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/the-furman-paladins-punch-their-ticket-to-march-madness\/70688033\">WYFF News 4<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/sports\/college\/mens-basketball\/article314983405.html?taid=69afdb43e4ff75000164b6ac&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\">The State<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/sports\/college\/furman\/2026\/03\/09\/furman-basketball-etsu-socon-championship-live-updates-watch\/89067265007\/?taid=69b0390914087e0001d018cb&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\">The Greenville News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizentribune.com\/sports\/national\/cooper-bowsers-21-points-11-boards-lead-no-6-seed-furman-past-top-seed-etsu\/article_f0991a56-97ff-5f49-851c-568257b1d802.html\">Citizen Tribune<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reflector.com\/sports\/state-national\/cooper-bowsers-double-double-leads-no-6-seed-furman-past-top-seed-etsu-for-socon\/article_7a7577a4-67a0-5291-9067-cf5d38ddd03b.html\">Reflector<\/a>, and FOX Carolina News, which ran several clips including this one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2026\/03\/10\/furman-paladins-punch-ticket-ncaa-tournament-with-socon-championship-win\/\">at the final buzzer<\/a>, this interview with Head Coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2026\/03\/10\/watch-1-on-1-with-bob-richey-after-furman-wins-socon-championship\/\">Bob Richey<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2026\/03\/10\/watch-postgame-reactions-after-furmans-socon-championship-victory-asheville\/\">postgame reactions<\/a> from Alex Wilkins, Cooper Bowser and Richey.<\/p>\n<p>Some content may require a subscription. Furman ID holders may access articles on databases located at Furman University Libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News outlets share in the jubilation following Furman&#8217;s upset of ETSU in the Southern Conference Tournament final. Next up: The NCAA Tournament, Furman&#8217;s first bid since 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":41340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1942,24,1991,2604,118,6,1640,1578,3508],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ap","category-athletics","category-espn","category-fox-carolina-sports","category-greenville-news","category-in-the-news","category-the-state","category-wspa-7-news","category-wyff-news-4"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41336","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=41336"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41704,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41336\/revisions\/41704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}