{"id":30697,"date":"2014-11-10T16:28:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T21:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=30697"},"modified":"2014-11-12T09:55:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T14:55:38","slug":"friday-is-red-day-as-brocks-basketball-teams-gear-up-for-home-openers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/11\/friday-is-red-day-as-brocks-basketball-teams-gear-up-for-home-openers\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday is Red Day as Brock&#8217;s basketball teams gear up for home openers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/fans2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30698\" title=\"fans2\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/fans2.jpg\" alt=\"fans2\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friday is Red Day as Brock faculty, staff and students are being encouraged to show their Badger pride and wear red to support the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s basketball teams.<\/p>\n<p>Several giveaways and special events are planned before and during Friday&#8217;s home openers, which are expected to sell out, but it&#8217;s those in attendance who will be the biggest winners.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the highlights include:<br \/>\n\u2022\tLicensed area overlooking the gym (capacity 200)<br \/>\n\u2022\tHalf-court shot to win $1,000<br \/>\n\u2022\tToronto Raptors tickets, Toronto Maple Leafs tickets, and other great swag<br \/>\n\u2022\tFirst 150 fans to arrive wearing red receive an Isaac&#8217;s Army bandana<br \/>\n\u2022\tRecognition of current Brock championship teams: women&#8217;s wrestling, men&#8217;s wrestling, baseball, men&#8217;s rowing<br \/>\n\u2022\tLaura Secord drum line and DJ throughout the games<\/p>\n<p>Women&#8217;s tipoff is 6 p.m. and the men play at 8 p.m. at the Bob Davis Gymnasium. Both teams will face Algoma.<\/p>\n<p>A limited number of student tickets are still available at no cost as per the Student Life fee referendum, while Alumni Relations has limited free tickets remaining for Brock graduates (email <a href=\"mailto:crichard2@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\">crichard2@brocku.ca<\/a> for details). Adult tickets are $10, and tickets for seniors and non-Brock students are $5.<\/p>\n<p>About 250 $10 packages, which included game admission, a Protect the Den T-shirt, hamburger, soft drink, Thunderstix or foam finger, <strong>sold out<\/strong> by Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Food will be served at Isaac&#8217;s pre-game party from 4 p.m.-7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Individual tickets are available and can be purchased and picked up in advance through the <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/recreation-services\" target=\"_blank\">Recreation Services<\/a> desk in the Walker Complex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday is Red Day as Brock faculty, staff and students are being encouraged to show their Badger pride and wear red to support the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s basketball home openers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[2551,256,2550,1645,255,2549,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30697"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30718,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30697\/revisions\/30718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}