{"id":4648,"date":"2013-09-05T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/larranaga-rewarded-with-long-term-extension-at-miami\/"},"modified":"2013-09-05T10:34:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T10:34:00","slug":"larranaga-rewarded-with-long-term-extension-at-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/larranaga-rewarded-with-long-term-extension-at-miami\/","title":{"rendered":"Larranaga rewarded with long-term extension at Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coral Gables, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; Miami-Florida men&#8217;s basketball coach Jim Larranaga has been rewarded with a long-term contract extension that will keep him with the Hurricanes through the 2021-22 season.<\/p>\n<p>Larranaga has spent the past two seasons at Miami and guided the Hurricanes to their best season in 2012-13 with a record of 29-7, a regular-season ACC championship and an ACC Tournament title.<\/p>\n<p>Miami was ranked as high as No. 2 during the season and earned a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament. The Hurricanes&#8217; magical year included a 27-point win over a top-ranked Duke squad in January and an ACC Tournament title game win over North Carolina. It ended with a school-record 29 wins following a loss to Marquette in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tourney.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to build a tradition of excellence at the University of Miami,&#8221; said Larranaga in a statement Thursday. &#8220;The most important aspect for me and our staff is to create consistency. With this extension the university has shown its commitment, and I am grateful for its confidence in our program.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Hurricanes are 49-20 in Larranaga&#8217;s two seasons. He has also been a head coach at George Mason, Bowling Green and American International College, and owns a career mark of 519-353 in 29 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Larranaga left George Mason in the spring of 2011 as the school&#8217;s all-time wins leader, going 273-164 during a 14-year tenure highlighted by a memorable and surprising Final Four run in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coral Gables, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; Miami-Florida men&#8217;s basketball coach Jim Larranaga has been rewarded with a long-term contract extension that will keep him with the Hurricanes through the 2021-22 season. Larranaga has spent the past two seasons at Miami and guided the Hurricanes to their best season in 2012-13 with a record of 29-7, [&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-4648","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\/4648","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=4648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}