{"id":882,"date":"2022-02-07T04:44:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=882"},"modified":"2025-09-29T04:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T04:34:13","slug":"stepinac-alumni-basketball-players-are-making-it-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=882","title":{"rendered":"Stepinac alumni basketball players are making it very big."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#39;ll be playing against each other &#8211; one is at Duke, the other at UNC. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs17.com\/sports\/duke-unc-players-high-school-coach-attending-rivalry-game-talks-on-history-between-griffin-davis\/\">RALEIGH, NC (WNCN) \u2013 It\u2019s a game that\u2019s circled on every calendar at the start of every season. Its viewership spans from the Raleigh-Durham area to California to New York. It\u2019s Duke vs. UNC Chapel Hill. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202788069c279200d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Duke UNC\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e202788069c279200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202788069c279200d-450wi\" style=\"width: 420px;\" title=\"Duke UNC\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year it has taken on a new magnitude for him with A.J. Griffin, a freshman at Duke, and R.J. Davis, a sophomore at UNC, playing in it. They\u2019re two of Massaroni\u2019s former players at Archbishop Stepinac.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited for our community to sit back and realize that two young men from Westchester, New York are playing in the best rivalry in sports, if not college basketball, for the longest time ever,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The pair played together for three seasons at Archbishop Stepinac, as Griffin\u2019s freshman year was Davis\u2019 sophomore season.<\/p>\n<p>The duo, under the direction of Massaroni, helped Archbishop Stepinac earn a New York Federation Title and a national No. 11 ranking with Duke\u2019s now sharpshooting freshmen coming in off the bench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#39;ll be playing against each other &#8211; one is at Duke, the other at UNC. RALEIGH, NC (WNCN) \u2013 It\u2019s a game that\u2019s circled on every calendar at the start of every season. Its viewership spans from the Raleigh-Durham area to California to New York. It\u2019s Duke vs. UNC Chapel Hill. This year it has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7402,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/7402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}