{"id":5645,"date":"2022-04-16T16:28:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T20:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5645"},"modified":"2022-04-16T16:28:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T20:28:21","slug":"flames-basketball-darius-mcghee-to-return-for-5th-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5645","title":{"rendered":"Flames Basketball Darius McGhee to return for 5th Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprise announcement on Friday, Liberty senior guard Darius McGhee announced he will be returning to Liberty for a fifth season, forgoing a professional playing career for the time being. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When they say &lsquo;Good things come in small packages&rsquo; they mean it. Darius McGhee&rsquo;s decision to return for an additional season is such a blessing to our program,&rdquo; Flames coach Ritchie McKay said. &ldquo;In many ways, it is a testament to the kind of young man he is, humble, pursuant, hard-working and a fantastic teammate. But it also speaks to the incredible young men that we have in our program that he would forego opportunities that are very appealing in order to pursue a year of shared experiences with the family he resides in our campus.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bKsHr3_cQfM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/wset.com\/sports\/college-sports\/libertys-darius-mcghee-to-return-to-flames-basketball-for-5th-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprise announcement on Friday, Liberty senior guard Darius McGhee announced he will be returning to Liberty for a fifth season, forgo&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5645\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flames Basketball Darius McGhee to return for 5th Season<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[271],"class_list":["post-5645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-flames-basketball-darius-mcghee-to-return-for-th-season","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1t3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5646,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions\/5646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}