{"id":105097,"date":"2017-01-06T10:21:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T15:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=105097"},"modified":"2025-05-16T10:55:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T14:55:33","slug":"its-the-delpeche-twins-time-to-lead-mens-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2017\/01\/06\/its-the-delpeche-twins-time-to-lead-mens-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Identical twins and seniors Marcus Delpeche and Malcolm Delpeche lead Bates into NESCAC play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It might be time to double down on the men&#8217;s basketball team&#8217;s chances this winter.<\/p>\n<p>Identical twin brothers and seniors <a href=\"http:\/\/athletics.bates.edu\/sports\/mbkb\/2016-17\/bios\/delpeche_marcus_x9ml?view=bio\">Marcus Delpeche<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/athletics.bates.edu\/sports\/mbkb\/2016-17\/bios\/delpeche_malcolm_nt19?view=bio\">Malcolm Delpeche<\/a> of Wilmington, Del., team leaders in scoring and rebounding, have led the Bobcats to a 9-3 record as conference play starts tonight, Jan. 6, at Colby.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Delpeche Mode | Bates College Men&#039;s Basketball\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cxd2ALAJC-E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After making the Sweet 16 their sophomore year, 2015-16 was a letdown, says Malcolm Delpeche. &#8220;So we really want to come back and put our best foot forward this season.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Marcus Delpeche &#8217;17 and Malcolm Delpeche &#8217;17 leading the way, it might be time to double down on Bates men&#8217;s basketball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":105104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,24,11012],"tags":[1263,10648,10647,6365],"class_list":["post-105097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-student-life","tag-basketball","tag-malcolm-delpeche","tag-marcus-delpeche","tag-nescac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105097"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105159,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105097\/revisions\/105159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}