{"id":100738,"date":"2026-03-20T08:56:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/?p=100738"},"modified":"2026-03-20T09:00:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:00:47","slug":"carleton-university-ravens-celebrate-historic-mens-basketball-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2026\/carleton-university-ravens-celebrate-historic-mens-basketball-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton University Ravens Celebrate Historic Men\u2019s Basketball Win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton University Ravens Celebrate Historic Men\u2019s Basketball Win\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Carleton University will be celebrating the historic <a href=\"https:\/\/goravens.ca\/teams\/mens-basketball\/\">Ravens men\u2019s basketball team<\/a>\u2019s 18th U SPORTS national championship with a special event. This marks the most national titles ever won by a Canadian university basketball team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:&nbsp;<\/strong>Tuesday, March 24, 2026 from 10:00 \u2013 11:00 am<br><strong>Where:&nbsp;<\/strong>Lobby, Nicol Building, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Agenda:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 a.m.&nbsp;&#8211; Guest Arrival<br>10:05 a.m.&nbsp;&#8211; Welcome by MC, Kwesi Loney, Director of High Performance Sport<br>10:10 a.m. &#8211; Remarks by University President, Wisdom Tettey<br>10:17 a.m. &#8211; Remarks by Vice-President (Students and Enrolment), Suzanne Blanchard<br>10:24 a.m. &#8211; Remarks by Men\u2019s Basketball Head Coach, Taffe Charles<br>10:31 a.m. \u2013 Remarks by men\u2019s basketball team players<br>10:40 a.m. &#8211; Group&nbsp;Photo &amp; Media Interviews<br><br><strong>Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>University President: Wisdom Tettey (keynote)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MC: Kwesi Loney, Director of High Performance Sport, Athletics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vice-President (Students and Enrolment): Suzanne Blanchard<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Men\u2019s Basketball Head Coach: Taffe Charles<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Men\u2019s Basketball team members, coaches and staff<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Coach Taffe Charles and members of the team will be available for media interviews following the formal program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Media Contact<\/strong>:<br>Steven Reid (he\/him)<br>Media Relations Officer<br>Carleton University<br>613-265-6613<br><a href=\"mailto:Steven.Reid3@carleton.ca\">Steven.Reid3@carleton.ca<\/a><br><br>Looking for a Carleton expert?<br>Visit:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/experts.carleton.ca\/\">https:\/\/experts.carleton.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton University will be celebrating the historic Ravens men\u2019s basketball team\u2019s 18th U SPORTS national championship with a special event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":242,"featured_media":100740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[100,167,102],"class_list":["post-100738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-advisories","tag-athletics","tag-basketball","tag-event"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100738"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100743,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100738\/revisions\/100743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}