{"id":200,"date":"2018-07-24T11:26:32","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T15:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/campusrec-draft\/?page_id=200"},"modified":"2018-09-20T11:57:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T15:57:17","slug":"keaney-complex","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/campusrec\/facilities\/keaney-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Keaney Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"type-intro fullwidth\">Keaney Gymnasium is named in honor of Rhode Island\u2019s winningest coach, the legendary Frank Keaney.<\/p>\n<h2>Keaney Complex Hosts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The URI Women\u2019s Varsity Volleyball &#038; Men\u2019s Club Volleyball teams<\/li>\n<li>Men\u2019s\/Women\u2019s Recreational locker rooms and showers supporting Mackal<\/li>\n<li>Intramural Sports Office<\/li>\n<li>Intercollegiate Athletic Equipment room and Laundry<\/li>\n<li>Team locker rooms for Men\u2019s: Soccer, Baseball, Women\u2019s Tennis and Track; Volleyball and Track<\/li>\n<li>Athletic offices for Football and Men\u2019s Soccer, Baseball, Golf and Women\u2019s Tennis<\/li>\n<li>Athletic offices for Women\u2019s Volleyball, Women\u2019s Soccer, and Softball<\/li>\n<li>Military Science (ROTC) Offices<\/li>\n<li>NCAA Compliance Office<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2>Part of College Sports History<\/h2>\n<p>Frank Keaney coached the Rams from 1920-48 and amassed a record of 401-124 (.764 winning percentage) in 28 seasons at the helm. He is credited with inventing the fast break and the Keaney Ring. He also served as football coach from 1920-40 and is the school\u2019s second winningest gridiron coach with 70 victories.<\/p>\n<p>Keaney is responsible for turning a game of patterned plodding into 40 minutes of frenzied excitement while overflow crowds, delighted at the spectacle of racehorse basketball, howled their approval. In an era when most teams did well to score 40 or 50 points a game, Rhode Island averaged nearly 80 and routinely led the nation in scoring. In 1940, they routed Connecticut 102-81 in what was then the highest scoring college game ever played.<\/p>\n<p>Keaney retired from active coaching in 1948 and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1960. Keaney, who is a charter member of the University of Rhode Island Athletic Hall of Fame, passed away on October 10, 1967, at the age of 81.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keaney Gymnasium is named in honor of Rhode Island\u2019s winningest coach, the legendary Frank Keaney. Keaney Complex Hosts The URI Women\u2019s Varsity Volleyball &#038; Men\u2019s Club Volleyball teams Men\u2019s\/Women\u2019s Recreational locker rooms and showers supporting Mackal Intramural Sports Office Intercollegiate Athletic Equipment room and Laundry Team locker rooms for Men\u2019s: Soccer, Baseball, Women\u2019s Tennis and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"parent":62,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-200","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/campusrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/campusrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/campusrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/campusrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/campusrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/campusrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1480,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/campusrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200\/revisions\/1480"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/campusrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/campusrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}