{"id":1003,"date":"2017-03-10T03:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T03:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2017-03-10T03:01:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T03:01:09","slug":"fridays-games-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"Friday&#8217;s games to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At this point, I am going to stop the games to watch perspective &#8211; they are all great.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How can you not get excited about watching Duke and UNC play for a third time?<\/li>\n<li>You know the Lunatic is excited that Purdue&#8217;s Big Ten tournament starts tomorrow against Michigan!!!<\/li>\n<li>Locally, VCU opens up their Atlantic 10 championship against George Mason and Richmond takes on the winner of St Louis and George Washington.<\/li>\n<li>Can Vanderbilt beat Florida for a third time in the SEC?<\/li>\n<li>Can TCU take the magic they had today in upsetting #1 Kansas and continue an improbable run to the tourney by taking out red-hot #23 Iowa State?<\/li>\n<li>Assuming the favorites win in tonight&#8217;s Pac 12 quarterfinals, we will get to watch Arizona play UCLA in an awesome semi-final game<\/li>\n<li>Can Indiana regain some of its magic from the start of the season and take out of Wisconsin<\/li>\n<li>With Kansas&#8217; loss, it appears the door is open for Villanova to take the #1 overall seed &#8211; can they continue their dominance in the Big East by beating Seton Hall<\/li>\n<li>Will any bubble teams like Cal or Rhode Island step up with big victories?<\/li>\n<li>Will the small conference champions like Middle Tennessee State and Nevada continue to win in their conference tournament and take their destiny out of the hands of the selection committee?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So many great games to watch!!!!\u00a0\u00a0 Such a fun time of year!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this point, I am going to stop the games to watch perspective &#8211; they are all great. How can you not get excited about watching Duke and UNC play for a third time? You know the Lunatic is excited that Purdue&#8217;s Big Ten tournament starts tomorrow against Michigan!!! Locally, VCU opens up their Atlantic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}