{"id":7087,"date":"2011-08-22T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=7087"},"modified":"2011-08-29T11:34:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T15:34:33","slug":"raider-road-trip-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/08\/22\/raider-road-trip-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Raider road trip: Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wright State men&#8217;s basketball team is in Italy this week to play four games against Italian professional teams.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh off the plane, the Raiders took in several tourist attractions before hitting the hardcourt, visiting the Roman Colosseum and many more of Italy&#8217;s famous ancient ruins.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Billy Donlon talks about the first leg of the trip on<a title=\"Donlon talks about Italy trip\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/31135958\/donlon.MP4\"> this video link.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the Raiders during their trip with <a title=\"Raider Italy trip blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsuitalyblog.com\/\">this blog.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Raiders will return home from the 10-day trip August 30th.<\/p>\n<p>Heading into next season Donlon believes the experience will be key for his team, which is  loaded with underclassman. Wright State currently has nine freshmen and  sophomores on the roster and no player who has been with the program for  more than one season.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7087 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/08\/22\/raider-road-trip-italy\/italy-picture1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"126\" height=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2011\/08\/Italy-picture1-140x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Photo of sophomore forward Cole Darling and senior forward Johann Mpondo posing for a picture in front of the Roman Colosseum.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7085\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7085'>\n\t\t\t\tPosing in front of one of the most famous sporting venues of ancient history, sophomore forward Cole Darling and senior forward Johann Mpondo visited the Roman Colosseum with the rest of the group early in the trip.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/08\/22\/raider-road-trip-italy\/italy-picture2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"126\" height=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2011\/08\/Italy-picture2-140x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Photo of the Wright State Raider basketball team in Italy in front of the Roman Colosseum.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7086\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7086'>\n\t\t\t\tThe Raiders are hoping the experiences in Italy on and off the court will help them grow as a team.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wright State men&#8217;s basketball team is in Italy this week to play four games against Italian professional teams. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/08\/22\/raider-road-trip-italy\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":7085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,727,715,717,719],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-photos","category-special-categories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7087","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7087"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7266,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7087\/revisions\/7266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}