{"id":2265,"date":"2008-02-13T06:28:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T06:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/02\/13\/burying-the-lede-hoops-edition\/"},"modified":"2008-02-13T06:28:32","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T06:28:32","slug":"burying-the-lede-hoops-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/02\/13\/burying-the-lede-hoops-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Burying the Lede, Hoops Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t see the game last night, as I got distracted by some other tasks, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/sports\/AP-BKC-T25-North-Carolina-Virginia.html?_r=1&#038;ex=1360645200&#038;en=1d1e9d040490f1f9&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss&#038;oref=slogin\">North Carolina narrowly beat Virginia<\/a> last night, on a late jump hook by Tyler Hansbrough. This might seem surprising, given that UVA was .500 on the season, and 1-8 in the league, and indeed, the AP describes it that way.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, nowhere in that article do you find the crucial bit of information. You have to go to <a href=\"http:\/\/scores.espn.go.com\/ncb\/boxscore?gameId=280430258\">ESPN&#8217;s box score<\/a> for that information (their game recap just repeats the AP text). From the box score, you can infer that Ty Lawson did not play, which makes the struggle a whole lot less surprising. Not to mention the fact that the game was on the road, and only a couple of days after a double-overtime game against Clemson.<\/p>\n<p>They did manage to get those facts in, but you might think that &#8220;playing their third straight game without their star point guard&#8221; would&#8217;ve made it into the story somewhere&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t see the game last night, as I got distracted by some other tasks, but North Carolina narrowly beat Virginia last night, on a late jump hook by Tyler Hansbrough. This might seem surprising, given that UVA was .500 on the season, and 1-8 in the league, and indeed, the AP describes it that&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/02\/13\/burying-the-lede-hoops-edition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Burying the Lede, Hoops Edition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}