{"id":450109,"date":"2025-07-07T15:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T13:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=450109"},"modified":"2025-07-07T15:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T13:11:07","slug":"thijs-de-ridder-signs-with-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/thijs-de-ridder-signs-with-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Thijs De Ridder signs with Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belgian forward Thijs De Ridder leaves Europe and flies to the NCAA to Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>The player comes from a season in ACB with a 9.3-point average in a Bilbao jersey. The player now only needs the green light from the NCAA.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEWS: Virginia has signed 22-year-old Belgian forward Thijs De Ridder, source told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rivals?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Rivals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This past season, the 6\u20198 De Ridder played for Surne Bilbao Basket, a professional team in Spain where he averaged 9.3 points \u2014 shooting 38% from 3.<\/p>\n<p>Projected as a second-round pick,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MELBpG36rb\">pic.twitter.com\/MELBpG36rb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Tipton (@TiptonEdits) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TiptonEdits\/status\/1942207198110605634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgian forward Thijs De Ridder leaves Europe and flies to the NCAA to Virginia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":450108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[401],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-450109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncaa","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/GvQbJvIXgAAwmU7.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450109"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=450109"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=450109"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=450109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}