{"id":73604,"date":"2017-02-02T08:20:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T14:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=73604"},"modified":"2017-02-02T08:20:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T14:20:42","slug":"championship-basketball-teams-return-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2017\/02\/championship-basketball-teams-return-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Championship basketball teams return to campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Photo (front row, left to right): Stacy Miller, Carlos Kelley, Tim Pledger, former coach Steve Rives, Brad Bunch, Dwaun Warmack. Back row (l to r): Robert Thompson, Rodney Francis, Ross Dorr, Marco Nicvwenbrock, Chris Sykes, Richard Micheaux, Twentis Magee, Jay Walton and Jon Parker.<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><br \/>\nThe Delta State University Alumni Association recently hosted a Reunion of the men\u2019s basketball 1996-98 Gulf South Conference championship teams. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">During a dinner banquet, the former players were recognized for their contributions to the basketball program at Delta State. They then received updates on the current basketball program and future plans for athletic facility upgrades from head men\u2019s basketball coach James Boone and Athletic Director Ronnie Mayers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Special guest former coach Steve Rives shared words of wisdom while catching up with his former teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt is always special when alumni and former staff make their way back to their alma mater,\u201d said Jeffrey Farris, \u00a0Alumni director. \u201cIt was very special to witness the guys relive the camaraderie, team spirit and fellowship that still lives on within our athletic programs today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">To stay up to date on the Alumni Association\u2019s activities, follow these social media sites: Facebook (Statesmen Graduates), Twitter (@DSU_Alumni), Tumblr (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsualumni.tumblr.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">http:\/\/www.dsualumni.tumblr.com<\/span><\/a>), LinkedIn (DSU alumni), Instagram (dsualumni) and You Tube (dsualumni1). Save the date for this year\u2019s Go Green Weekend (April 8), Pig Pickin\u2019 (Oct. 7) and Homecoming (Nov. 11).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo (front row, left to right): Stacy Miller, Carlos Kelley, Tim Pledger, former coach Steve Rives, Brad Bunch, Dwaun Warmack. Back row (l to r): Robert Thompson, Rodney Francis, Ross&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":73607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,47],"tags":[1408,200,176,694],"class_list":["post-73604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alumni","category-athletics","tag-alumni","tag-athletics-2","tag-basketball","tag-gulf-south-conference"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73604"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73666,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73604\/revisions\/73666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}