{"id":1684,"date":"2019-04-09T02:18:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T02:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2020-02-23T20:40:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T20:40:47","slug":"great-first-half-of-the-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1684","title":{"rendered":"Great first half of the championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both team&#8217;s defenses were on display to start as both teams struggled to get started.   But then Virginia jumped out to a 10 point lead on a few nice three pointers by Ty Jerome and Kyle Guy and some nice drives that led to free throws for DeAndre Hunter.<\/p>\n<p>But you had to know Texas Tech would punch back &#8211; but as March does, you would never expect who.  For the Red Raiders, it was their bench as Brandone Francis and Kyler Edwards came and hit three three-pointers to bring them back.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams at this point went back and forth to keep the game close &#8211; but on the last possession of the half, Virginia found Ty Jerome open at the top of the key for a three-pointer to give the Cavaliers a 32-29 halftime lead.<\/p>\n<p>Considering these teams play possession basketball, it might not turn into a high scoring game &#8211; but it is likely to be close.  Should be an exciting second half!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both team&#8217;s defenses were on display to start as both teams struggled to get started. But then Virginia jumped out to a 10 point lead on a few nice three pointers by Ty Jerome and Kyle Guy and some nice drives that led to free throws for DeAndre Hunter. But you had to know Texas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1685,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions\/1685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}