{"id":9862,"date":"2016-02-11T11:39:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T16:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/?p=9862"},"modified":"2018-05-07T20:55:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T20:55:33","slug":"9862","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/2016\/02\/11\/9862\/","title":{"rendered":"FIU Women\u2019s Basketball vs. Rice &#8211; Honoring Former Head Coach Cindy Russo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>FIU Women\u2019s Basketball\u00a0vs. Rice &#8211; Honoring Former Head Coach Cindy Russo<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016 | 12:00 p.m.<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Lime Court at FIU Arena<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Faculty, staff and retirees are invited to take advantage of discounted\u00a0women\u2019s basketball tickets\u00a0\u2013 <strong>only $1 each<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 for the FIU women\u2019s basketball game versus Rice on\u00a0Saturday,\u00a0February 20, at 12 Noon. \u00a0We hope that you\u2019ll come out and be a part of a very special day, as the FIU Athletic Department honors former FIU Women&#8217;s Basketball <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/RussoRec\" target=\"_blank\">Head Coach Cindy Russo<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0Russo was the driving force behind FIU\u00a0women\u2019s\u00a0basketball for 36 years and is\u00a0one of the NCAA&#8217;s winningest coaches.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOW:<\/strong>\u00a0Tickets can be purchased in advance by visiting the University Credit Union Box Office, located at the R. Kirk Landon Fieldhouse. The box office is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.\u00a0Employees can also purchase tickets on game day at the FIU Arena Box Office, beginning at 11:00 a.m.\u00a0A valid FIU employee ID must be presented at the time of purchase.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, tickets can be purchased online at\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiusports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.FIUSPORTS.com<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Simply click on the ticket home page, the event, the \u201cSPECIALS &amp; STUDENTS\u201d tab, and then enter code:\u00a0<strong>EMPLOYEE<\/strong>.\u00a0 All online tickets will be held at will call, located at the FIU Arena Box\u00a0Office. \u00a0<em>A valid FIU employee ID must be presented at the time of ticket pick up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For additional information, please contact our box office team at 305-FIU-GAME (348-4263).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIU Women\u2019s Basketball\u00a0vs. Rice &#8211; Honoring Former Head Coach Cindy Russo Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016 | 12:00 p.m. Lime Court at FIU Arena Faculty, staff and retirees are invited to take advantage of discounted\u00a0women\u2019s basketball tickets\u00a0\u2013 only $1 each\u00a0\u2014 for the FIU women\u2019s basketball game versus Rice on\u00a0Saturday,\u00a0February 20, at 12 Noon. \u00a0We hope that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":9868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[310,311],"class_list":["post-9862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-fiu-athletics","tag-fiu-womens-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14854,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9862\/revisions\/14854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}