{"id":339,"date":"2017-11-17T17:46:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T22:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/?p=339"},"modified":"2020-03-31T11:57:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T15:57:09","slug":"kent-bazemore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/2017\/11\/17\/kent-bazemore\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Bazemore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kent Bazemore<\/strong> was an all-conference basketball star at Old Dominion University (ODU) from 2007-2012. A native of Kelford, North Carolina, Bazemore was recruited by head coach\u00a0<strong>Blaine Taylor<\/strong> for both his shooting and defensive skills.<\/p>\n<h3>Athletic Accomplishments<\/h3>\n<p>A redshirt his freshman year, Bazemore moved into the starting lineup in 2009 and was a key player in the Monarch&#8217;s Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) regular season championship. He was named to the CAA All-Defensive Team, averaging 8.5 points, 3.4 assists, and 4.2 rebounds. Kent also contributed to another CAA championship the following year. During the 2010-2011 season, Bazemore and the Monarchs made the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Tournament, which ended in a two point loss to Butler University, the eventual runner-up. Bazemore was named the CAA Defensive Player of the Year and the most outstanding men&#8217;s college basketball defender in NCAA Division I (Lefty Driesell Award). During his final season at ODU, Bazemore averaged 15.4 points, 6.1 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, Bazemore signed with the Golden State Warriors, and since 2014, has played with the Atlanta Hawks. During the 2016-2017 season, Bazemore averaged 11 points, 3.2 rebounds, and 2.4 assists per game. On December 10, 2016, at a game against Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Bazemore&#8217;s #24 jersey was retired and he was inducted into Old Dominion University&#8217;s Ring of Honor.<\/p>\n<h3>Resources<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.odu.edu\/archon\/?p=collections\/controlcard&amp;id=145\">Old Dominion University Athletics Papers<\/a>,\u00a0Special Collections and University Archives, Patricia W. and J. Douglas Perry Library, Old Dominion University Libraries, Norfolk, VA 23529.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Bazemore was an all-conference basketball star at Old Dominion University (ODU) from 2007-2012. A native of Kelford, North Carolina, Bazemore was recruited by head coach\u00a0Blaine Taylor for both his shooting and defensive skills. Athletic Accomplishments A redshirt his freshman year, Bazemore moved into the starting lineup in 2009 and was a key player in&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/2017\/11\/17\/kent-bazemore\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":878,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[4,5,11],"tags":[35,38,36,84,14,18,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}