{"id":265510,"date":"2025-09-30T03:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T03:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/265510\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T03:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T03:38:11","slug":"murray-state-opens-title-defense-with-first-practice-of-new-season-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/265510\/","title":{"rendered":"Murray State opens title defense with first practice of new season | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MURRAY, KY &#8212; The Murray State women&#8217;s basketball team officially kicked off the 2025-26 season on Monday afternoon with their first practice.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first time the Racers have been on the court since they played in last years Women&#8217;s NCAA Tournament. That all came after Murray State won their first Missouri Valley Conference Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Heading into this season, which is year number nine for head coach Rechelle Turner, the Racers have those same expectations of winning a championship.<\/p>\n<p>However, they are not changing how they approach the game despite winning a title last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; think our mindset now is just not getting complacent,&#8221; junior guard Haven Ford said. &#8220;It&#8217;s so easy just coming off of a championship of all right, we did it, you know, and so now we just have to be ready to just grind even more of trying to do it again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Racers will open the season on November 3rd when they play host to Trevecca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MURRAY, KY &#8212; The Murray State women&#8217;s basketball team officially kicked off the 2025-26 season on Monday afternoon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":265511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,2871,1369,2076,47129,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-265510","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","10":"tag-college-sports","11":"tag-college-basketball","12":"tag-msu","13":"tag-ncaa","14":"tag-ncaa-basketball","15":"tag-ncaabasketball","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115291167444765659","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265510","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=265510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}