{"id":228943,"date":"2025-08-13T21:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/228943\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T21:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:20:10","slug":"web-series-will-take-us-behind-the-scenes-with-uva-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/228943\/","title":{"rendered":"Web series will take us behind the scenes with UVA Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/uva-basketball-1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"uva basketball\" width=\"555\" height=\"312\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/uva-basketball-1.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a>Photo: Mike Ingalls\/AFP<\/p>\n<p>UVA Athletics thought the big news was that they have a title sponsor for a <a class=\"general-link\" href=\"https:\/\/virginiasports.com\/news\/2025\/08\/12\/cho-named-title-sponsor-of-proving-grounds-preseason-with-virginia-mens-basketball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">new web series offering behind-the-scenes access to UVA Basketball<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The news to me: they\u2019re doing a new web series offering behind-the-scenes access to UVA Basketball?<\/p>\n<p>I had not previously been aware of that.<\/p>\n<p>Just scoured the UVA Athletics website, and the series hadn\u2019t been previously announced, so it\u2019s not as if I missed out on anything.<\/p>\n<p>OK, so, per the press release on this, which went out on Tuesday, Charlottesville Albemarle Airport is the title sponsor for \u201cProving Grounds \u2013 Preseason with Virginia Men\u2019s Basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Good for the folks out at CHO.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m more interested in knowing more about the web series, which got a brief description in the press release that made the CHO sponsorship the focus.<\/p>\n<p>From the release:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Proving Grounds \u2013 Preseason with Virginia Men\u2019s Basketball\u2019\u00a0is a four-part all-access video series that will provide an inside look at the dawn of a new era for one of UVA\u2019s most-storied athletic programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of?<\/p>\n<p>I get it that women\u2019s swimming has won five straight national championships, but we didn\u2019t build a $150 million arena that fills up 15 times each fall and winter for women\u2019s swimming.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, do they even let people in to watch swim meets?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll assume so, and move on.<\/p>\n<p>The first episode of \u201cProving Grounds\u201d is scheduled for release on Thursday, Aug. 21, with future episodes released monthly leading into the beginning of the 2025-2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll make sure to fly out of CHO sometime soon \u2013 maybe next June, if there\u2019s a need to take a flight out to Omaha, for instance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Mike Ingalls\/AFP UVA Athletics thought the big news was that they have a title sponsor for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,5476],"class_list":{"0":"post-228943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-uva-basketball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}