{"id":42707,"date":"2016-12-19T12:26:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T16:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=42707"},"modified":"2016-12-19T13:42:50","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T17:42:50","slug":"badgers-head-back-to-meridian-centre-for-basketball-doubleheader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/12\/badgers-head-back-to-meridian-centre-for-basketball-doubleheader\/","title":{"rendered":"Badgers head back to Meridian Centre for basketball doubleheader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock Badgers are ready to paint the Meridian red.<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball teams will host the Ryerson Rams in a key mid-season doubleheader at the Meridian Centre in downtown St. Catharines on Friday, Jan. 27.<\/p>\n<p>Just in time for last-minute gift shoppers, tickets are now on sale for the Paint the Meridian Red game through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketmaster.ca\/brock-badgers-v-ryerson-rams-st-catharines-ontario-01-27-2017\/event\/100051909458543A?artistid=943169&amp;majorcatid=10004&amp;minorcatid=7\" target=\"_blank\">Ticketmaster online<\/a>. Both general admission tickets and courtside options are available. Prices are $15 for adults, $10 for seniors and students and $35 for courtside. Members of the Brock Community can enter the promo code <em>GoBadgers <\/em>on Ticketmaster to purchase $8 general admission tickets. Brock alumni are also invited to attend the games and can purchase the discounted tickets using code <em>BrockAlumni<\/em>. More than 1,000 free tickets for Brock students will be available from the Walker Complex Welcome Desk starting Jan. 23.<\/p>\n<p>Brock Sports is hoping the game surpasses the previous Brock attendance record of 3,532 fans set at the Meridian Centre during the Steel Blade Hockey Game in September.<\/p>\n<p>The doubleheader will start with the Badgers women tipping off at 6 p.m. Ryerson currently sits sixth in the country with a 6-1 record while the Badgers have a 2-4 record, putting them third in the OUA Central Division.<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s game will follow at 8 p.m. when the Badgers, ranked sixth in the nation with a 4-2 record, play the Rams, ranked fifth with a perfect 7-0 record.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016-737.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-42711 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016-737.png\" alt=\"2016-737\" width=\"784\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock Badgers are ready to paint the Meridian red. The men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball teams will host the Ryerson Rams in a key mid-season doubleheader at the Meridian Centre in downtown St. Catharines on Friday, Jan. 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":42708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,3319,4052,1,4,58],"tags":[4437,4402,255,3556,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42707"}],"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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42712,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42707\/revisions\/42712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}