{"id":50872,"date":"2018-03-07T15:36:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T20:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=50872"},"modified":"2018-03-07T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T20:36:15","slug":"fans-celebrate-raiders-horizon-league-title-at-watch-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/03\/07\/fans-celebrate-raiders-horizon-league-title-at-watch-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans celebrate Raiders&#8217; Horizon League title at watch party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March Madness has swept the Wright State University community. It started with a watch party on March 6 for the Horizon League championship, when more than 75 alumni, faculty and staff gathered at Milano&#8217;s in Beavercreek to cheer on the men&#8217;s basketball team.<\/p>\n<p>And they had plenty of reason to celebrate when the <a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/03\/06\/raiders-clinch-spot-in-ncaa-tournament-after-winning-horizon-league-title\/\">Raiders overwhelmed Cleveland State 74\u201357 to win the Horizon League title<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The victory gave the men&#8217;s basketball team its first trip to the NCAA tournament since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders will learn who they will play in the opening round of the tournament when the 68-team bracket is released March 11.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders, who were the Horizon League tournament\u2019s second seed, are now 25\u20139, the most wins in the program\u2019s Division I history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 75 Wright State fans cheered on the Raiders during a Horizon League championship watch party. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/03\/07\/fans-celebrate-raiders-horizon-league-title-at-watch-party\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":50877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[711,725,727,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50872","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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50876,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50872\/revisions\/50876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}