{"id":21447,"date":"2014-07-29T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/vols-pg-lopez-to-miss-season-with-torn-acl\/"},"modified":"2014-07-29T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T15:00:00","slug":"vols-pg-lopez-to-miss-season-with-torn-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/vols-pg-lopez-to-miss-season-with-torn-acl\/","title":{"rendered":"Vols PG Lopez to miss season with torn ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knoxville, TN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Tennessee point guard Brandon Lopez will miss the upcoming season after suffering a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee playing basketball with teammates, the school said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee said in a news release the injury happened Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez, a walk-on entering his senior season, has scored just five points in three seasons for Tennessee but new Volunteers coach Donnie Tyndall said the 6-foot-1 guard &#8220;had worked himself into a position where he was competing for a starting role.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very disappointing for our team, but it&#8217;s even more disappointing for a great young man who has worked extremely hard this offseason,&#8221; Tyndall said in a statement. &#8220;Brandon&#8217;s positive attitude and upbeat mentality will get him through this tough time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lopez appeared in 31 games of the past three seasons. He attempted 10 shots in 2012-13, making two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knoxville, TN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Tennessee point guard Brandon Lopez will miss the upcoming season after suffering a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee playing basketball with teammates, the school said Tuesday. Tennessee said in a news release the injury happened Saturday. Lopez, a walk-on entering his senior season, has scored just five points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ncaa-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}