{"id":1027,"date":"2017-03-16T02:50:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T02:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2017-03-16T02:50:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T02:50:15","slug":"the-lunatic-reveals-his-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1027","title":{"rendered":"The Lunatic Reveals His Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is so exciting &#8211; maybe the best two days in college basketball is less than 24 hours away.\u00a0\u00a0 And so it is time for the Lunatic to release his picks.<\/p>\n<p>In his sane picks, the Lunatic has Villanova beating Duke in the East, Arizona beating Gonzaga in the West, Louisville beating Kansas in the Midwest, and UNC beating UCLA in the South.\u00a0\u00a0 This will lead to a re-match of last year&#8217;s championship &#8211; where UNC will beat Villanova to take the title.<\/p>\n<p>In his insane picks, the Lunatic has Villanova beating Duke in the East, Arizona beating Notre Dame in the West, his beloved Boilermakers from Purdue winning the Midwest against Oregon, and then UNC beating Kentucky in the South.\u00a0\u00a0 This will once again lead to a re-match of last year&#8217;s championship, but the Insane picks have Villanova successfully defending their championship against the Tar Heels.<\/p>\n<p>In other website news, the Handicapping page is updated for all the First Round games &#8211; for those of you looking for some last minute advice that is probably doomed to fail.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss your chance to join the fun!!!!\u00a0\u00a0 We already have 252 entries &#8211; and we always get tons of entries on the last day.\u00a0\u00a0 Make sure you get your picks in before Noon tomorrow, and good luck to everyone in Stomping the Lunatic!!!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is so exciting &#8211; maybe the best two days in college basketball is less than 24 hours away.\u00a0\u00a0 And so it is time for the Lunatic to release his picks. In his sane picks, the Lunatic has Villanova beating Duke in the East, Arizona beating Gonzaga in the West, Louisville beating Kansas in the [&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-1027","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\/1027","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=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}