{"id":112946,"date":"2016-05-20T09:23:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T13:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=112946"},"modified":"2016-05-20T09:23:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T13:23:03","slug":"basketball-wall-champions-opportunity-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2016\/05\/basketball-wall-champions-opportunity-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball &#8216;Wall of Champions&#8217; an Opportunity for Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basketball fans have a chance to become part of history by adding their names to the newly created &#8220;Wall of Champions&#8221; in the Werth Family UConn Basketball Champions Center.<\/p>\n<p>Names of Husky fans will be listed on the &#8220;Wall of Champions&#8221; as part of the final enhancements to the building, which features displays, graphics and artwork depicting the proud history of both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s programs. A gift of $1,500, representing UConn\u2019s combined 15 national championships, will secure a place on the wall.<\/p>\n<p>The facility is the first building at the University financed entirely by private donations. Thirty-three million has been committed so far toward the $37 million fundraising goal.<\/p>\n<p>The Werth Family UConn Basketball Champions Center, one of the preeminent basketball facilities in the country, opened in October 2014. The 78,000-square-foot state-of-the-art center boasts practice gyms, locker rooms, and coaches offices, as well as study areas, video rooms, and sports medicine and strength training spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Make a gift <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foundation.uconn.edu\/wall-of-champions\/\">online<\/a> or call the UConn Athletic Development fund at 860-486-3863.<\/p>\n<p>Gifts to the Werth Family UConn Basketball Champions Center &#8220;Wall of Champions&#8221; will not earn priority points or receive athletic benefits. Contributions are fully deductible to the extent permitted by law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans can secure their name on the wall with a donation to the Werth Family UConn Basketball Champions Center, the first University building financed entirely by private donations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":112953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1712,2225],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[175],"class_list":["post-112946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-uconn-storrs"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 10:31:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112946"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112949,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112946\/revisions\/112949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/112953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112946"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=112946"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=112946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}