{"id":853,"date":"2022-03-30T17:30:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T17:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1998classnews\/?p=853"},"modified":"2022-03-30T17:30:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T17:30:59","slug":"john-baines-98-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1998classnews\/2022\/03\/30\/john-baines-98-3\/","title":{"rendered":"John Baines &#8217;98"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pantagraph.com\/sports\/college\/basketball\/kindred-u-high-iwu-grad-john-baines-posting-good-numbers-as-coach\/article_020dcb70-2590-5006-aff3-ddcaf3a74ebe.html#tncms-source=login\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>John Baines<\/strong> &#8217;98<\/a>, head coach of the Elmhurst University men\u2019s basketball team, was named the D3hoops.com Region 8 Coach of the Year after leading the Bluejays to a single-season school-record 27 wins and the program\u2019s first-ever trip to the Final Four in 2021-22. Elmhurst lost to Randolph-Macon College in the national championship game on March 19, 2022. John has been the Bluejays\u2019 head coach since 2013, posting an overall record of 148-84 in nine seasons at the helm. As a player at Illinois Wesleyan, John played in four NCAA Tournaments and won a national championship in 1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Baines &#8217;98, head coach of the Elmhurst University men\u2019s basketball team, was named the D3hoops.com Region 8 Coach of the Year after leading the Bluejays to a single-season school-record 27 wins and the program\u2019s first-ever trip to the Final &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1998classnews\/2022\/03\/30\/john-baines-98-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1998classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1998classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1998classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1998classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1998classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1998classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1998classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1998classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1998classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1998classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}