{"id":206,"date":"2011-03-16T06:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T06:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=206"},"modified":"2011-03-16T06:53:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T06:53:00","slug":"response-to-11-seed-play-ins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"Response to 11 Seed play ins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first heard about First Four games, I also thought that they are eliminating the chance for the small school upsets of 15 seeds by making the worst 8 conference winners play each other in 16\/17 games. I would think this is just wrong, but hey&#8230;.they could claim a tournament win. But by making the extra At Large bids, who in a 64 team field wouldn&#8217;t have been in the tournament, play each other in a play in game makes sense. Those 4 teams would be hosting NIT games. Which of these teams if any should be here. They should play each other and find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first heard about First Four games, I also thought that they are eliminating the chance for the small school upsets of 15 seeds by making the worst 8 conference winners play each other in 16\/17 games. I would think this is just wrong, but hey&#8230;.they could claim a tournament win. But by making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-user2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","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=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}