{"id":13852,"date":"2025-06-25T15:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T15:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/13852\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T15:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T15:36:10","slug":"tommies-basketball-will-open-new-arena-with-double-header-vs-army-twin-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/13852\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommies\u2019 basketball will open new arena with double-header vs. Army \u2013 Twin Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of St. Thomas\u2019 basketball teams will open their new arena with a men\u2019s\/women\u2019s double-header at Lee &amp; Penny Anderson Arena on Nov. 8.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams will play Army, the alma mater of Lee Anderson. Game times will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese games will be a celebration of so many things, including Lee Anderson and the Tommie Athletic Department as a whole,\u201d St. Thomas vice president and athletics director Phil Esten said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Tommies recently completed the first jump in NCAA history from Division III to Division I, getting final approval this week and ending the process a year ahead of schedule. Starting this fall, Tommies programs will be eligible to earn berths in NCAA tournaments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of St. Thomas\u2019 basketball teams will open their new arena with a men\u2019s\/women\u2019s double-header at Lee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,1369,1317,1337,1338,62,14379,9656,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-13852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-sports","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaabasketball","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-st-thomas","15":"tag-uncategorized","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114744746540313367","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}