{"id":1100,"date":"2017-03-26T00:34:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T00:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2017-03-26T00:34:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T00:34:36","slug":"zags-win-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1100","title":{"rendered":"Zags win the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xavier and Gonzaga entered today&#8217;s West regional with an interesting record &#8211; they were tied for first with the most school victories (27) without making the Final Four.<\/p>\n<p>Nigel Williams-Goss scored 23 points and Johnathan Williams added 19 &#8211; as the Gonzaga Bulldogs dominated the 11 seed Xavier Musketeers.<\/p>\n<p>Xavier tried to take the Gonzaga big guys away from them &#8211; and Gonzaga made them pay for it by hitting a bunch of threes &#8211; thr Musketeers simply did not have an answer.<\/p>\n<p>There is always criticism of a small conference champion when they have such an amazing season &#8211; their schedule is too weak, they would not have that record if they played in a major conference like the ACC, Big 12 or Pac 12. &nbsp; Well, the West Coast Conference champions became the first WCC team to make the Final Four since San Francisco did in 1957. &nbsp; Congratulations to Gonzaga for becoming the first team to book their ticket to Arizona and the Final Four!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xavier and Gonzaga entered today&#8217;s West regional with an interesting record &#8211; they were tied for first with the most school victories (27) without making the Final Four. Nigel Williams-Goss scored 23 points and Johnathan Williams added 19 &#8211; as the Gonzaga Bulldogs dominated the 11 seed Xavier Musketeers. Xavier tried to take the Gonzaga [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","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=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1101,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}