{"id":3874,"date":"2011-04-15T09:26:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T13:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=3874"},"modified":"2011-04-15T09:26:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T13:26:44","slug":"the-italian-job-raiders-basketball-heads-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/04\/15\/the-italian-job-raiders-basketball-heads-to-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Italian job: Raiders basketball heads to Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>((Contributed by Wright State Sports Information))<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3985\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3985\" href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/04\/15\/the-italian-job-raiders-basketball-heads-to-europe\/ncaa-basketball-feb-25-detroit-at-wright-st-3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3985\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3985\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2011\/04\/WSUHorizonLeagueTourney-260x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Head Coach Billy Donlon and his squad will be in Italy for 10 days this August.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>DAYTON \u2013 The Wright State men\u2019s basketball team has scheduled a trip to  Italy where they will play up to four games, practice and use it as a  cultural learning experience for the student-athletes.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders are scheduled to visit Rome, The Vatican, Florence, Venice  and Milan from August 20-30. NCAA teams are able to make this type of  trip once every four years but WSU has not done so since 1990 when they  played in Germany, The Netherlands and France. Fellow Horizon League  partners Milwaukee (2010) and Butler (2009) took this same trip  recently. Detroit visited Spain in 2009 as did Cleveland State in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State will also be afforded the chance to practice 10 days before  leaving and, according to NCAA rules, newcomers and redshirt players,  such as Julius Mays, will be able to make their Raider debuts in Italy.  This will be important as no player on this year\u2019s roster will have more  than one year experience in a Raider uniform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving already participated on a foreign tour as a coach, the life  experience that our players will gain is immeasurable,\u201d Donlon said. \u201cWe  will be able to immerse ourselves in the Italian way of life while  visiting many places that have notable historical and cultural  significance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fans can also be part of the trip through Basketball Travelers. The trip  starts on August 20, arriving into Rome, and it will end August 30 with  a flight from Milan. The cost will include guided tours, hotel  accommodations for nine nights, airfare and ground transportation. There  is also an option with ground transportation only. For more information,  call 425-776-2775 or go to their website <a href=\"https:\/\/ems.resrunner.com\/WrightSt\">https:\/\/ems.resrunner.com\/WrightSt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wright State men\u2019s basketball team has scheduled a trip to Italy where they will play up to four games&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/04\/15\/the-italian-job-raiders-basketball-heads-to-europe\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,715,719],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news","category-special-categories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3874"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3992,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions\/3992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}