{"id":906,"date":"2019-05-28T17:46:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T21:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/?p=906"},"modified":"2021-10-08T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T21:36:00","slug":"mitchum-basketball-performance-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/2019\/05\/28\/mitchum-basketball-performance-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitchum Basketball Performance Center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <strong>Mitchum Basketball Performance Center<\/strong> is a dedicated practice gymnasium with conditioning and training rooms, coaches suites, and player lounges for the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s basketball teams at <strong>Old Dominion University (ODU)<\/strong>. The 25,000 square-foot building is located behind the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/2019\/05\/10\/ted-constant-convocation-center\/\">Ted Constant Convocation Center<\/a><\/strong> in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/2019\/05\/10\/university-village\/\">University Village<\/a><\/strong>. The building is named after Bernett and Blanche Mitchum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/869\/2019\/05\/mitchum-2018-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-907\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/869\/2019\/05\/mitchum-2018-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/869\/2019\/05\/mitchum-2018-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/869\/2019\/05\/mitchum-2018-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/869\/2019\/05\/mitchum-2018.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>Mitchum Basketball Performance Center, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Groundbreaking for the center took place in October 2015 and the building was completed in May 2017. The privately-funded performance center cost about $8.4 million to build and was financed by the Mitchum family as well as other basketball supporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resources<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol><li><a href=\"https:\/\/dc.lib.odu.edu\/digital\/collection\/oduphotos\">ODU Photographic Collection<\/a>, Old Dominion University Libraries Digital Collections, Old Dominion University Libraries.<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/exhibits.lib.odu.edu\/exhibits\/show\/buildings\/building-the-university\">Building the University<\/a>, Old Dominion University Libraries Digital Exhibit, 2005.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mitchum Basketball Performance Center is a dedicated practice gymnasium with conditioning and training rooms, coaches suites, and player lounges for the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s basketball teams at Old Dominion University (ODU). The 25,000 square-foot building is located behind the Ted Constant Convocation Center in the University Village. The building is named after Bernett and&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/2019\/05\/28\/mitchum-basketball-performance-center\/\">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":[5,6],"tags":[38,17,211,14,18,208,210],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906"}],"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=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1690,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}