{"id":848421,"date":"2026-10-01T15:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/848421\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T15:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:06:18","slug":"uconn-mens-basketball-the-big-east-preseason-favorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/848421\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn men\u2019s basketball the Big East preseason favorite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW YORK (WFSB) &#8211; UConn picked up a slew of preseason honors during Big East Media Day on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The men\u2019s basketball team was picked as the Big East Conference\u2019s top preseason favorite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The conference\u2019s preseason player of the year is Silas Demary Jr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sophomore Braylon Mullins was a unanimous pick for the preseason First Team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Na\u2019Jai Hines, also a sophomore, was picked for the conference\u2019s preseason Second Team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Colben Landrew is the Big East\u2019s preseason freshman of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WFSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (WFSB) &#8211; UConn picked up a slew of preseason honors during Big East Media Day on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,3426,100171,56784,100172,17605,54643,217,26033,93425,772,63773,922,100169,100170,100173],"class_list":["post-848421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-big-east","tag-big-east-college-basketball","tag-big-east-media-day","tag-big-east-preseason-favorite","tag-braylon-mullins","tag-colben-landrew","tag-college-basketball","tag-media-day","tag-najai-hines","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-silas-demary","tag-uconn","tag-uconn-big-east","tag-uconn-big-east-media-day","tag-uconn-preseason-favorite"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117366278242213749","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848421","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=848421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}