{"id":748269,"date":"2019-04-08T14:51:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T18:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=748269"},"modified":"2019-04-08T14:51:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T18:51:41","slug":"defensive-battle-is-over-simplification-of-the-national-title-game-between-virginia-texas-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=748269","title":{"rendered":"Defensive battle is over-simplification of the national title game between Virginia, Texas Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/defensive-battle-is-over-simplification-of-the-national-title-game-between-virginia-texas-tech\/18313336\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/basketball\/college_basketball\/2019\/04\/08\/18312017\/media_e96f696df64b4888a2f0a9c820c36225-DMID1-5ief4pha8-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Final_Four_Virginia_Texas_Tech_Basketball_45999\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Virginia and Texas Tech is billed as a defensive battle. But it&#8217;s stocked with outstanding offensive players on both sides. Still, Texas Tech has one of the best defenses in the history of advanced statistics. Can the Red Raiders disrupt yet another of the nation&#8217;s most efficient offenses? And can Virginia fully exorcise its demons by doing the improbable &#8211; going from losing to a 16-seed to a national title? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/defensive-battle-is-over-simplification-of-the-national-title-game-between-virginia-texas-tech\/18313336\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/defensive-battle-is-over-simplification-of-the-national-title-game-between-virginia-texas-tech\/18313336\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Defensive battle is over-simplification of the national title game between Virginia, Texas Tech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia and Texas Tech is billed as a defensive battle. But it&#8217;s stocked with outstanding offensive players on both sides. Still, Texas Tech has one of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=748269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=748269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=748269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=748269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}