{"id":8080,"date":"2019-03-18T13:57:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T17:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/furman-to-host-wichita-state-in-first-round-nit-game-wednesday-at-7-p-m\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T19:34:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T00:34:14","slug":"furman-to-host-wichita-state-in-first-round-nit-game-wednesday-at-7-p-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-to-host-wichita-state-in-first-round-nit-game-wednesday-at-7-p-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman to host Wichita State in first-round NIT game Wednesday at 7 p.m."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Furman men\u2019s basketball team didn\u2019t get a bid to the NCAA tournament despite producing the best season in school history, but its performance hasn\u2019t gone unrewarded. The Paladins will play in the 32-team National Invitational Tournament and host a first-round game in Timmons Arena Wednesday, March 20 at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 3 seeded Paladins will play the 6th-seeded Shockers in first round action. The winner of Wednesday\u2019s game will advance to face the winner of No. 2 seed Clemson and No. 7 seed Wright State.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for Wednesday&#8217;s game are $15 each and can be purchased <a href=\"http:\/\/www.furmanpaladins.com\/sports\/tickets\/Offers\/NIT\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>. Furman students will receive free admission with a valid Furman ID. Season ticket holders have until Tuesday, March 19, at 12 p.m. to reserve their seats and are encouraged to use their season ticket log-in to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The Paladins, 25-7 on the season and ranked No. 41 in the latest NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET), will be making their 11th postseason appearance and third in the last four seasons. Wednesday&#8217;s game will represent just the second appearance in the NIT for the Paladins, who dropped an 86-67 decision at West Virginia in their only previous trip to the NIT in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Included among Furman&#8217;s school-record 25 wins this season were victories at Big East champion and defending national champion Villanova and a win at Missouri Valley Conference champion Loyola Chicago. The Paladins earned a spot in the Associated Press Top 25 for three straight weeks during December after becoming the first Southern Conference team to begin a season with 12 consecutive wins since the 1964-65 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/furmanpaladins.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/2018-19\/releases\/20190317wk07ui\">furmanpaladins.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Furman men\u2019s basketball team didn\u2019t get a bid to the NCAA tournament despite producing the best season in school history, but its performance hasn\u2019t gone unrewarded. The Paladins will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":8081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8080","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\/8080","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=8080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}