{"id":1102,"date":"2017-03-26T03:05:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T03:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2017-03-26T03:05:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T03:05:02","slug":"the-ducks-beat-the-jayhawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1102","title":{"rendered":"The Ducks beat the Jayhawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was supposed to be the Kansas Jayhawks party. &nbsp; Kansas was the #1 seed, and they had averaged 96 points in the first three games of the tournament. &nbsp;The Ducks had a great run so far, but without starting forward Chris Boucher, it was not viewed that they would be able to hang with the talented stars from Kansas. &nbsp; And of course, the game was being held in Kansas City &#8211; making the Midwest Final a virtual home game for the Jayhawks.<\/p>\n<p>Well, someone forgot to tell the Oregon Ducks &#8211; they were working under a different script. &nbsp; That script had them jump out to a 44-33 lead at half-time, including a banked three pointer by Tyler Dorsey to end the half. &nbsp; Then, Oregon held off any run that the Jayhawks tried.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Bell had 11 points, 13 rebounds and 8 blocked shots to control the paint and Tyler Dorsey shot 6-10 from three point range to lead the Ducks with 27 points. &nbsp;And the Pac 12 regular season co-champions beat the powerful Jayhawks 74-60.<\/p>\n<p>The Oregon Ducks are returning to the Final Four for the first time in 78 years &#8211; the Ducks were the 1939 National Champions. &nbsp; Congratulations to the Oregon Ducks!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was supposed to be the Kansas Jayhawks party. &nbsp; Kansas was the #1 seed, and they had averaged 96 points in the first three games of the tournament. &nbsp;The Ducks had a great run so far, but without starting forward Chris Boucher, it was not viewed that they would be able to hang with [&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-1102","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\/1102","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=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1103,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/1103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}