{"id":554040,"date":"2026-03-30T10:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/554040\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T10:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:56:08","slug":"braylon-mullins-connecticut-stun-duke-advance-to-final-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/554040\/","title":{"rendered":"Braylon Mullins, Connecticut stun Duke, advance to Final Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"BUKCZN73K5AWXEYDFEGMPRRUDE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Connecticut Coach Dan Hurley likes to call his baby-faced freshman guard Braylon Mullins \u201cthe Bringer of Rain,\u201d a nod to his high, arcing jumpers that seem to fall from the sky.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QUMDD3ICWRFKFFSJGM3D55UIRE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">On Sunday, with 0.4 seconds left and Connecticut\u2019s season hanging by a thread, Mullins launched his highest, longest rainbow yet \u2014 a 35-foot prayer that splashed through the net. It was the kind of shot that instantly lights up social feeds and loops on highlight reels for years \u2014 one that will resurface every March as long as madness reigns, replayed alongside the likes of Christian Laettner, Kris Jenkins and Jalen Suggs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connecticut Coach Dan Hurley likes to call his baby-faced freshman guard Braylon Mullins \u201cthe Bringer of Rain,\u201d a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":{"0":"post-554040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}