{"id":28502,"date":"2014-03-10T09:36:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T13:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=28502"},"modified":"2014-03-10T09:36:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T13:36:17","slug":"wright-state-puts-dayton-on-national-stage-hosting-horizon-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/03\/10\/wright-state-puts-dayton-on-national-stage-hosting-horizon-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State puts Dayton on national stage hosting Horizon finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/12\/22\/wright-state-to-launch-%e2%80%9chealthy-steps%e2%80%9d-program\/wsu-raider-logo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7574\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7574\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2011\/09\/WSU-Raider-logo-260x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve gotta admit, the Horizon League has a pretty cool way\u00a0for determining its men\u2019s basketball champion.<\/p>\n<p>The league\u2019s top seed earns rights to host the tournament \u2014\u00a0from round two through the semifinals \u2014 but a few upsets can send the\u00a0championship game to the site of almost any team in the league.<\/p>\n<p>And this past\u00a0weekend the unexpected happened.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State University made it to the finals, and the\u00a0top-seeded team lost, meaning we\u2019ll see a Horizon League championship game at\u00a0the Nutter Center for the first time since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Read more from the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/dayton\/blog\/morning_call\/2014\/03\/wright-state-puts-dayton-on-national-stage-hosting.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dayton Business Journal<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt You\u2019ve gotta admit, the Horizon League has a pretty cool way\u00a0for determining its men\u2019s basketball champion. The league\u2019s top seed earns rights to host the tournament \u2014\u00a0from round two through the semifinals \u2014 but a few upsets can send &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/03\/10\/wright-state-puts-dayton-on-national-stage-hosting-horizon-finals\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":7574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28502"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28508,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28502\/revisions\/28508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}