{"id":95,"date":"2008-02-11T09:19:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T17:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/11\/purdue-leads-the-big-ten\/"},"modified":"2008-02-11T09:19:08","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T17:19:08","slug":"purdue-leads-the-big-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/11\/purdue-leads-the-big-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"Purdue Leads the Big Ten!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/purdue.jpg\" alt=\"Purdue Logo\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">For the first time in a long time, and at least since I&#8217;ve been there, Purdue is in sole possesion of first place in the Big Ten for men&#8217;s basketball.\u00a0 This has been a long time coming and is great to see.\u00a0 The team is made up of primarily young players (four freshman regularly start for the team) so I didn&#8217;t expect much from this season except hopefully building to the next two years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">All expectations have been well exceeded by this group of kids.\u00a0 They play hard, and most importantly play together.\u00a0 No one person is the star or tries to take the glory.\u00a0 Each night a different two or three players tend to step up to give Purdue the win.\u00a0 They are having a nice 9 game winning streak and just came off a terrific win at Wisconsin, a place they hadn&#8217;t won at since 1996.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Hopefully Purdue can keep this up going into the conference tournament and NCAA tournament as well.\u00a0 This just makes me more excited for March coming up!<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/11\/purdue-leads-the-big-ten\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-facebook-plugin\/facebook_share_icon.gif\" alt=\"Share on Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in a long time, and at least since I&#8217;ve been there, Purdue is in sole possesion of first place in the Big Ten for men&#8217;s basketball.\u00a0 This has been a long time coming and is great to see.\u00a0 The team is made up of primarily young players (four freshman regularly start [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/11\/purdue-leads-the-big-ten\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-facebook-plugin\/facebook_share_icon.gif\" alt=\"Share on Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}