{"id":5862,"date":"2014-11-03T14:36:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T19:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qballers.com\/blog\/?p=5862"},"modified":"2014-11-03T14:36:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T19:36:55","slug":"colonials-hoops-season-starts-this-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/03\/colonials-hoops-season-starts-this-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonials Hoops Season Starts This Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Buzz<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gwhatchet.com\/2014\/11\/03\/from-overshadowed-to-under-the-spotlight\/\" target=\"_blank\">From overshadowed to in the spotlight<\/a> [GW Hatchet]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After several years of program mediocrity and upsetting seasons, GW has gone from being a team that was overshadowed, to being in the spotlight \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a position that can only be maintained through repeat performances.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Last year was our year, things worked out right,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Lonergan said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve gotten great publicity from the media, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got great support here from GW but nothing is automatic. We want to stay mentioned up there and not with some of the low-majors or mid-majors in the area.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/collegebasketballnation\/post\/_\/id\/100379\/five-observations-atlantic-10-media-day?ex_cid=espnapi_public\" target=\"_blank\">GW Picked to Finish Second In A-10 Behind VCU <\/a> [ESPN]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only been three years since Mike Lonergan arrived at George Washington, and in that short time, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s elevated the Colonials from a 10-win team to an NCAA tournament game-winner. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com\/2014\/10\/30\/2014-2015-season-preview-treveon-graham-vcu-enter-as-favorites-in-the-atlantic-10\/\" target=\"_blank\">Atlantic-10 Season Preview <\/a>[NBC Sports]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn 2013, the A-10 preseason poll predicted a 10th-place finish for Mike Lonergan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Colonials. After a surprise season, Lonergan has a quartet of juniors \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Patricio Garino, Kethan Savage, Joe McDonald and Kevin Larsen \u00e2\u20ac\u201d ready to handle preseason hype, as George Washington looks for a second straight NCAA tournament appearance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buzz From overshadowed to in the spotlight [GW Hatchet] After several years of program mediocrity and upsetting seasons, GW has gone from being a team that was overshadowed, to being in the spotlight \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a position that can only be maintained through repeat performances. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Last year was our year, things worked out right,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Lonergan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[405,245],"class_list":["post-5862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-colonials","tag-gw-basketball"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5864,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862\/revisions\/5864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}