{"id":1034681,"date":"2020-07-29T13:56:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T17:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1034681"},"modified":"2020-07-29T13:56:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T17:56:45","slug":"former-illinois-new-mexico-st-coach-lou-henson-dies-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1034681","title":{"rendered":"Former Illinois, New Mexico St coach Lou Henson dies at 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/former-illinois-new-mexico-st-coach-lou-henson-dies-at-88\/19210474\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/basketball\/college_basketball\/2020\/07\/29\/19210475\/5f21b88a7f6ce-media_e5af7237ef6a475b8a414b56a9ed8e87-DMID1-5no4qhdye-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Obit_Henson_Basketball_95048\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Lou Henson, the plain-spoken coach who took New Mexico State and Illinois to the Final Four during a 21-year career that included nearly 800 victories and a feud with fellow Big Ten coach Bob Knight, has died. He was 88. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/former-illinois-new-mexico-st-coach-lou-henson-dies-at-88\/19210474\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/former-illinois-new-mexico-st-coach-lou-henson-dies-at-88\/19210474\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Former Illinois, New Mexico St coach Lou Henson dies at 88\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lou Henson, the plain-spoken coach who took New Mexico State and Illinois to the Final Four during a 21-year career that included nearly 800 victories&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1034681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1034681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1034681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1034681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}