{"id":41486,"date":"2026-03-23T11:06:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=41486"},"modified":"2026-03-24T09:41:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:41:21","slug":"local-news-covers-first-round-play-at-ncaa-tournament-paladins-vs-huskies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/local-news-covers-first-round-play-at-ncaa-tournament-paladins-vs-huskies\/","title":{"rendered":"Local news covers first-round play at NCAA Tournament, Paladins vs. Huskies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local news outlets followed the Furman Paladins to Philadelphia for the university&#8217;s second appearance in the NCAA Tournament in four years. In Furman&#8217;s 82-71 loss on Friday to No. 2 seed UConn Huskies &#8220;the Paladins didn&#8217;t go down without a fight,&#8221; said Chase Justice, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/furman-hangs-tough-falls-to-uconn-82-71-in-ncaa-https:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/furman-hangs-tough-falls-to-uconn-82-71-in-ncaa-tournament\/70808267tournament\/70808267\">WYFF News 4<\/a> reporter. Furman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/communication-studies\">communication studies<\/a> alumna and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2026\/03\/21\/furman-mbb-seniors-reflect-their-time-paladins\/\">FOX Carolina News<\/a> reporter Ella Grogan &#8217;25 spoke with players Ben Vander Wal and Tom House after the game. FOX Carolina also aired a clip of the post-game news conference.<\/p>\n<p>In other coverage, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/sports\/college\/furman\/2026\/03\/21\/furman-basketball-uconn-march-madness-ncaa-tournament\/89213322007\/?taid=69bec0af363d3f00010699a5&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\">The Greenville News&#8217;<\/a> Zachary Huber explains why the loss won&#8217;t define the Paladins&#8217; season. The News published this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/picture-gallery\/sports\/college\/furman\/2026\/03\/20\/furman-basketball-takes-on-uconn-in-march-madness-gallery-best-photos\/89258124007\/\">photo gallery<\/a> of the action.<\/p>\n<p>In not so local news, <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/furman-gives-uconn-handle-schematic-204913837.html\">SBNation&#8217;s<\/a> Sam Federman posted a story about the coaching similarities between the Paladins and Huskies that staged &#8220;one of the most fascinating schematic games of the NCAA Tournament &#8230; with [Furman giving] UConn as good a push as anybody could\u2019ve expected,&#8221; Federman wrote. &#8220;Furman hung around, punching back every time UConn extended the lead to near double digits, and trailed by just five with five minutes left.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman players and Head Coach Bob Richey reflect on the Paladins&#8217; loss to No. 2 seed UConn at the NCAA Tournament. &#8220;They didn&#8217;t go down without a fight,&#8221; writes one reporter. Another reporter notes the matchup was one of the most fascinating schematic games of the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":41489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,1569,6,3521,2262,3508],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news","category-sbnation","category-the-greenville-news","category-wyff-news-4"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41486","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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41486"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41515,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41486\/revisions\/41515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}