{"id":946,"date":"2004-03-02T22:08:24","date_gmt":"2004-03-03T04:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/hoos-grillin-gillen-now\/"},"modified":"2004-03-02T22:08:24","modified_gmt":"2004-03-03T04:08:24","slug":"hoos-grillin-gillen-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/hoos-grillin-gillen-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoo&#8217;s Grillin&#8217; Gillen Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not often or maybe ever that a team loses 8 of it&#8217;s first 10 conference games and then ends up playing for an at-large bid in the regular season finale. But that&#8217;s exactly what has happened to Virginia this year. Tonight, for the 4th time in their last 5 games, they won on a last second shot. 3 of those wins have been against top 20 teams, and tonight it was against Wake Forest.<\/p>\n<p>The same fans that have assailed coach Pete Gillen over the past 2 years have rushed the University Hall court in the last 3 home games. Sunday&#8217;s UVa @ Maryland game in prime-time becomes a play-in game with the loser likely removed from at-large consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not often or maybe ever that a team loses 8 of it&#8217;s first 10 conference games and then ends up playing for an at-large bid in the regular season finale. But that&#8217;s exactly what has happened to Virginia this year. Tonight, for the 4th time in their last 5 games, they won on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}