{"id":5877,"date":"2023-02-27T13:47:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T18:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5877"},"modified":"2023-02-27T13:47:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T18:47:37","slug":"liberty-signs-basketball-coach-ritchie-mckay-to-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5877","title":{"rendered":"Liberty signs basketball coach Ritchie McKay to extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University has signed men&rsquo;s basketball coach Ritchie McKay to a contract extension that ostensibly keeps McKay at the school through 2030.<\/p>\n<p>McKay, 57, has led Liberty to an 128-35 record in the past five seasons in his second stint as the head coach at the school.<\/p>\n<p>McKay was 39-28 in two seasons at Liberty, 2006-2008, before leaving to join the staff at Virginia when Tony Bennett got the job there.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2mNV6rkZ_Do\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/augustafreepress.com\/news\/liberty-signs-basketball-coach-ritchie-mckay-to-extension-through-2029-2030-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University has signed men&rsquo;s basketball coach Ritchie McKay to a contract extension that ostensibly keeps McKay at the school t&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5877\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty signs basketball coach Ritchie McKay to extension<\/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":[395],"class_list":["post-5877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-liberty-signs-basketball-coach-ritchie-mckay-to-extension","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1wN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877","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=5877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5878,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877\/revisions\/5878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}