{"id":17848,"date":"2026-03-20T16:39:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/20\/how-uconn-basketballs-defense-returned-huskies-to-national-contender-status-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T16:39:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:39:22","slug":"how-uconn-basketballs-defense-returned-huskies-to-national-contender-status-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/20\/how-uconn-basketballs-defense-returned-huskies-to-national-contender-status-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"How UConn basketball&#8217;s defense returned Huskies to national contender status &#8211; USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiyAFBVV95cUxOUDJsaUlScDRMNnRBWWZ4MzFZVTBxTnNqSFdNS1cxd0lpOVRpZ3lMWmxobF9POUczNmVkRm5heVp1VXk1bnFuV1JoTWNObkNab1AtTXEwNnF3MklOVHdUMHYzVmtWZlpRSTNjM3ZUMTZvdlgxcnQ0MG1lOGZKc2VUdVZyY3ZuejdVV000TWJYWWRNVFlTeGx3bGJLdmg2YkJsY3dDci1vcW8yOGJXSURyaTdfTXBPallRSkFpNm84WTB4OFBUTzVMTA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">How UConn basketball&#8217;s defense returned Huskies to national contender status<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">USA Today<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How UConn basketball&#8217;s defense returned Huskies to national contender status&nbsp;&nbsp;USA Today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}