{"id":2807,"date":"2024-03-19T20:44:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T20:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=2807"},"modified":"2024-03-19T20:44:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T20:44:32","slug":"call-out-to-the-virginia-nit-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=2807","title":{"rendered":"Call out to the Virginia NIT schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We definitely have representation in the NCAA Tournament for Virginia &#8211; but those are going to get plenty of press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, for the local fans, we have three other Virginia schools playing in the NIT &#8211; Unfortunately, two of them play each other so we will be down to 2 by the end of the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tonight at 9 pm on ESPN2, the Richmond Spiders (23-9) will travel to Blacksburg to play Virginia Tech (18-14)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, Wednesday at 9 pm on ESPN2, the VCU Rams (22-13)  get their chance as they travel to Philadelphia for a battle with Villanova.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously, living in Richmond, I am more rooting for the two local Atlantic-10 schools (it is always more fun when the smaller schools win).  But if the Hokies win tonight, I will happily cheer for them as well &#8211; lets see if one of them can bring a NIT Championship back to Virginia!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We definitely have representation in the NCAA Tournament for Virginia &#8211; but those are going to get plenty of press. So, for the local fans, we have three other Virginia schools playing in the NIT &#8211; Unfortunately, two of them play each other so we will be down to 2 by the end of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2024-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807","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=2807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2808,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions\/2808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}