{"id":186857,"date":"2026-02-12T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/northeast-ohio-sports-teams-turn-to-ai-for-stats-and-athletic-advantage\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T17:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:06:23","slug":"northeast-ohio-sports-teams-turn-to-ai-for-stats-and-athletic-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/northeast-ohio-sports-teams-turn-to-ai-for-stats-and-athletic-advantage\/","title":{"rendered":"Northeast Ohio Sports Teams Turn to AI for Stats and Athletic Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/02_12_2026\/northeast-ohio-sports-teams-turn-to-ai-for-stats-and-athletic-advantage\">Northeast Ohio Sports Teams Turn to AI for Stats and Athletic Advantage<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/02_12_2026\/northeast-ohio-sports-teams-turn-to-ai-for-stats-and-athletic-advantage\">https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/02_12_2026\/northeast-ohio-sports-teams-turn-to-ai-for-stats-and-athletic-advantage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-12 16:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.utoledo.edu\">news.utoledo.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The University of Toledo is integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into its sports teams\u2019 operations in pursuit of a competitive edge.<\/li>\n<li>Bryan Blair, vice president for intercollegiate athletics, and Brian Wright, women\u2019s volleyball coach, are leading the initiative in combining AI with sports analytics.<\/li>\n<li>AI technology is being used to analyze statistics and performance data more accurately and improve player training and strategies.<\/li>\n<li>The aim is to provide teams with cutting-edge data-driven insights to enhance their athletic performance.<\/li>\n<li>This move towards AI reflects a broader trend in collegiate athletics toward leveraging advanced technology for sports competitiveness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northeast Ohio Sports Teams Turn to AI for Stats and Athletic Advantage https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/02_12_2026\/northeast-ohio-sports-teams-turn-to-ai-for-stats-and-athletic-advantage Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/themes\/news2020\/images\/utoledo-logo-white-desktop.svg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-186857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186859,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186857\/revisions\/186859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}