{"id":23782,"date":"2023-03-17T12:47:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T16:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=23782"},"modified":"2023-03-17T13:41:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T17:41:03","slug":"paladins-shock-virginia-in-ncaa-first-round-68-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/paladins-shock-virginia-in-ncaa-first-round-68-67\/","title":{"rendered":"PALADINS SHOCK VIRGINIA IN NCAA FIRST ROUND, 68-67"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Orlando, Fla. \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Sophomore <dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/furmanpaladins.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/jp-pegues\/5099\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"5099\">JP Pegues<\/a><\/dfn> drained a three-pointer with 2.4 seconds left to help No. 13 seed Furman shock No. 4 seed Virginia, 68-67, in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament Thursday afternoon at the Amway Center in Orlando, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>With its first tournament victory since claiming a 75-67 win over South Carolina in first round play on March 9, 1974, the Paladins advanced to face No. 5 seed San Diego State in Saturday&#8217;s round of 32. Tip-off time will be announced later tonight. Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/furmanpaladins.com\/news\/2023\/3\/16\/mens-basketball-furman-works-magic-in-orlando-paladins-shock-virginia-in-ncaa-first-round-68-67.aspx\">FurmanPaladins.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing in its first NCAA Tournament since 1980, Furman (28-7) notched its school-record 28th victory and became the first SoCon school to claim a tournament win since 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":23772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}