{"id":1768,"date":"2020-02-19T13:36:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T19:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2020-02-19T13:36:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T19:36:52","slug":"abc-gang-reunites-at-ssc-basketball-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/abc-gang-reunites-at-ssc-basketball-game\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018ABC Gang\u2019 Reunites at SSC Basketball Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Seminole State College stand-out basketball players Ray Alford, Anthony Bowie and William Childs attended the SSC Trojan basketball games on Monday, Feb. 17. The trio was known as the \u201cABC Gang\u201d during their time playing at then Seminole Junior College.\u00a0 They led the 1983 Trojan team to a second-place finish in the 1983 NJCAA National Tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cIt was wonderful to see these icons of Trojan basketball showing up to support this year\u2019s teams.\u00a0 They are legends of our program,\u201d President Lana Reynolds said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alford, who was from Wewoka, went on to play at Oklahoma State University.\u00a0 He was inducted into the SSC Alumni Hall of Fame in 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Childs played at West Texas after leaving Seminole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bowie played at the University of Oklahoma, and later played professional basketball.\u00a0 His eight seasons in the NBA included playing with teams in New York, San Antonio, Houston and Orlando. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams won their games against Western Oklahoma State College on Monday. The men\u2019s team came away with a 102-65 victory, and the women\u2019s team won with a score of 76-68. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Seminole State College stand-out basketball players Ray Alford, Anthony Bowie and William Childs attended the SSC Trojan basketball games on Monday, Feb. 17. The trio was known as the \u201cABC Gang\u201d during their time playing at then Seminole Junior College.\u00a0 They led the 1983 Trojan team to a second-place finish in the 1983 NJCAA … Continue reading \u2018ABC Gang\u2019 Reunites at SSC Basketball Game<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-1768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-http-www-sscok-edu-media-academics","tag-february-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1771,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions\/1771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}