{"id":41483,"date":"2026-03-21T12:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T16:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=41483"},"modified":"2026-03-21T12:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T16:48:13","slug":"no-2-seed-uconn-survives-against-no-15-seed-furman-in-ncaa-tournament-first-round-82-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/no-2-seed-uconn-survives-against-no-15-seed-furman-in-ncaa-tournament-first-round-82-71\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 2 Seed UConn Survives Against No. 15 Seed Furman In NCAA Tournament First Round, 82-71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"268\">No. 15 seed <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Furman Paladins men&#8217;s basketball<\/span><\/span> saw its run in the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">NCAA Division I Men&#8217;s Basketball Tournament<\/span><\/span> come to a close with a first-round loss 82-71 to No. 2 seed <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">UConn Huskies men&#8217;s basketball<\/span><\/span>, battling throughout but unable to overcome the defending powerhouse.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"270\" data-end=\"320\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Read the full game recap on Furman Athletics <a href=\"https:\/\/furmanpaladins.com\/news\/2026\/3\/21\/mens-basketball-no-2-seed-uconn-survives-against-no-15-seed-furman-in-ncaa-tournament-first-round-82-71.aspx\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. 15 seed Furman Paladins men&#8217;s basketball saw its run in the NCAA Division I Men&#8217;s Basketball Tournament come to a close with a first-round loss 82-71 to No. 2 seed UConn Huskies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":41437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41483","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\/41483","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\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41484,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41483\/revisions\/41484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}