{"id":33567,"date":"2015-03-27T03:58:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T07:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=33567"},"modified":"2015-03-26T16:16:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T20:16:25","slug":"rocket-to-compete-in-state-farms-slam-dunk-championship-april-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/03_27_2015\/rocket-to-compete-in-state-farms-slam-dunk-championship-april-2","title":{"rendered":"Rocket to compete in State Farm&#8217;s Slam Dunk Championship April 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior forward J.D. Weatherspoon will have one more opportunity to wear a Toledo Rocket uniform after being selected to participate in State Farm\u2019s 27th annual College Slam Dunk and Three-Point Championships. <\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_33568\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Weatherspoon-jamming.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33568\" src=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Weatherspoon-jamming.jpg\" alt=\"J.D. Weatherspoon amassed 115 dunks during 67 games for Toledo.\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Weatherspoon-jamming.jpg 540w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Weatherspoon-jamming-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">J.D. Weatherspoon amassed 115 dunks during 67 games for Toledo.<\/p><\/div>The event will take place at Butler\u2019s Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis Thursday, April 2, and air on ESPN from 7 to 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>A Columbus, Ohio, native, Weatherspoon earned third-team All-Mid-American Conference honors this past season and will be one of eight individuals competing in the slam-dunk portion of the event.<\/p>\n<p>He ranked second in the MAC with 8.4 rebounds per game and a 56.3 field-goal percentage and was third on the team with 12.9 points per game. He slammed home 69 dunks this season and 115 in 67 contests as a Rocket. <\/p>\n<p>Weatherspoon also finished fifth on UT\u2019s career field-goal percentage list with a 55.1 percent (279 of 506) shooting mark.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets can be purchased through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/\">ticketmaster.com<\/a>. Adult general admission tickets are available for $16 with children\u2019s tickets priced at $8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.D. Weatherspoon is one of eight players who will compete in the State Farm\u2019s 27th annual College Slam Dunk and Three-Point Championships Thursday, April 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,5,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}