{"id":6989,"date":"2009-03-01T10:30:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T14:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=3236"},"modified":"2023-01-20T14:42:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T19:42:40","slug":"passing-thought-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/03\/01\/passing-thought-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/03\/mhoops8433.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"273\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/03\/mhoops8433.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full\" alt=\"mhoops8433\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With 4:34 remaining in the first half of the men&#8217;s basketball game vs. Bowdoin on Jan. 23, 2009, Neil Creahan &#8217;10 of Hingham, Mass., drives between Bowdoin defenders and dishes to Jimmy O&#8217;Keefe &#8217;10 (not pictured) of Lexington, Mass., for the layup. &#8220;The play was for Neil to go one-on-one, to let him operate,&#8221; explains head coach Jon Furbush &#8217;05. Creahan picks up the story: &#8220;I beat my man, then was met by the second line of defense. With two guys on me, I found O&#8217;Keefe on the basket.&#8221; The Bobcats won, 57\u201354, giving Furbush his initial NESCAC coaching victory before a rambunctious home crowd in Alumni Gym.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 4:34 remaining in the first half of the men&#8217;s basketball game vs. Bowdoin on Jan. 23, 2009, Neil Creahan &#8217;10 of Hingham, Mass., drives between Bowdoin defenders and dishes to Jimmy O&#8217;Keefe &#8217;10 of Lexington, Mass., for the layup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[24],"tags":[780,1263,10856,1791,6365],"class_list":["post-6989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","tag-alumni-gymnasium","tag-basketball","tag-bates-magazine","tag-bowdoin","tag-nescac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6989","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88957,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6989\/revisions\/88957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}