{"id":124,"date":"2014-04-05T20:32:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T00:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/?p=124"},"modified":"2014-04-05T23:54:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T03:54:58","slug":"uconn-defeats-florida-to-move-onto-ncaa-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/2014\/04\/05\/uconn-defeats-florida-to-move-onto-ncaa-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn defeats Florida to move onto NCAA Championship game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/files\/2014\/04\/deandredamniels.jpg\" alt=\"deandredamniels\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/files\/2014\/04\/deandredamniels.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/files\/2014\/04\/deandredamniels-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Connecticut Huskies are headed to the NCAA Men&#8217;s Championship game after defeating No. 1 Florida 63-53 in Saturday&#8217;s semi-final match-up.<\/p>\n<p>Florida jumped out to a 16-4 lead before UConn outscored them 22 the rest of the way. At halftime UConn held a 25-22 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Huskies coach Kevin Ollie is now 5-0 in his first trip to the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Up next for the Huskies will be the NCAA Championship game on Monday against the <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/2014\/04\/05\/watch-aaron-harrison-hits-game-winning-three-pointers-ith-5-7-seconds-left\/\" title=\"Watch: Aaron Harrison hits game winning three-pointers ith 5.7 seconds left\">Kentucky Wildcats<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Connecticut Huskies are headed to the NCAA Men&#8217;s Championship game after defeating No. 1 Florida 63-53 in Saturday&#8217;s semi-final match-up. Florida jumped out to a 16-4 lead before UConn outscored them 22 the rest of the way. At halftime UConn held a 25-22 lead. Huskies coach Kevin Ollie is now 5-0 in his first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13,5],"coauthors":[2],"class_list":{"0":"post-124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaabb-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-ncaabb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}