{"id":9054,"date":"2020-11-13T23:05:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T23:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/11\/13\/heres-how-furman-is-developing-into-socons-top-program\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:36:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:36:20","slug":"heres-how-furman-is-developing-into-socons-top-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/heres-how-furman-is-developing-into-socons-top-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s how Furman is developing into SoCon&#8217;s top program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of Furman Men&#8217;s Basketball season opener against USC Upstate set for Nov. 28, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/sports\/college\/furman\/2020\/11\/13\/heres-how-furman-developing-into-socons-top-basketball-program\/6233525002\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/strong> reported that the Paladins have been picked to finish second in the Southern Conference according to a poll of the league&#8217;s coaches. The media, however, have picked the Paladins to finish first in the SoCon &#8211; for the second time in four years. During the SoCon&#8217;s first-ever virtual media day, Furman Coach Bob Richey said, \u201cThat\u2019s the beauty of building a program. This has been a seven-year task in getting the culture and development to where we want it to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of Furman Men&#8217;s Basketball season opener against USC Upstate set for Nov. 28, The Greenville News reported that the Paladins have been picked to finish second in the Southern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":7919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-in-the-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9054","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=9054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}