{"id":407653,"date":"2026-08-15T22:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407653\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T22:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:38:15","slug":"university-of-dallas-heads-to-london-after-60k-travel-setback-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407653\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Dallas heads to London after $60K travel setback \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After months of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/local\/travel-company-bankruptcy-university-of-dallas-hoops-london-trip\/4009544\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">uncertainty and a fundraising push to overcome a loss of more than $60,000<\/a>, the University of Dallas men&#8217;s basketball team is headed to London.<\/p>\n<p>According to the school, the team left Thursday and will play its first game in London Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The trip was thrown into doubt in April after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/local\/travel-company-bankruptcy-university-of-dallas-hoops-london-trip\/4009544\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">team&#8217;s travel agency filed for bankruptcy<\/a>, costing the team more than $60,000.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Grahn, head coach of the Crusaders, said the program made two $30,000 payments to Go Play LLC before the company notified customers it was ceasing operations.<\/p>\n<p>The company cited reduced bookings and increased cancellations \u201cdue to the ongoing situation in the Middle East,\u201d according to an email sent to customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease know that GoPlay did not make this decision lightly and explored several options to avoid this outcome, including refinancing, raising new capital, and a potential sale of the business. Unfortunately, GoPlay has been unable to identify a way to continue operating,\u201d the email said.<\/p>\n<p>A summer fundraising push ultimately helped save the journey, including a $30,000 donation from Mark Cuban.<\/p>\n<p>Players say the experience taught them one big lesson: Never give up.<\/p>\n<p>This story was originally reported for broadcast by NBC DFW. AI tools helped convert the story into a digital article, and an NBC DFW journalist edited it again before publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After months of uncertainty and a fundraising push to overcome a loss of more than $60,000, the University&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1770,102,104,103],"class_list":["post-407653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-basketball","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}