{"id":20741,"date":"2014-07-11T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/payne-named-mississippi-valley-mens-basketball-coach\/"},"modified":"2014-07-11T13:31:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T13:31:00","slug":"payne-named-mississippi-valley-mens-basketball-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/payne-named-mississippi-valley-mens-basketball-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Payne named Mississippi Valley men&#8217;s basketball coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Itta Bena, MS (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Andre Payne has been named the new men&#8217;s basketball coach at Mississippi Valley State.<\/p>\n<p>Payne spent the past eight years as head coach and associate athletic director at Wiley College in Texas. The NAIA program had a record of 146-104 under Payne, including a 25-7 mark last season.<\/p>\n<p>In Payne&#8217;s first season of 2006-07, the Wildcats reached the NAIA Tournament for the first time in 37 years. They also qualified for the tourney in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Payne also spent time as head coach at Texas College. He owns a career record of 239-183, ranking 24th in career wins among active NAIA coaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Itta Bena, MS (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Andre Payne has been named the new men&#8217;s basketball coach at Mississippi Valley State. Payne spent the past eight years as head coach and associate athletic director at Wiley College in Texas. The NAIA program had a record of 146-104 under Payne, including a 25-7 mark last season. In Payne&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ncaa-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}