{"id":2451,"date":"2023-03-14T03:52:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T03:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=2451"},"modified":"2023-03-14T03:52:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T03:52:39","slug":"let-the-handicapping-begin-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=2451","title":{"rendered":"Let the Handicapping Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, on the podcast, I gave my opinions on the bracket.\u00a0 And while I might do some more analysis and change a couple of those picks, that is likely what I am going to stick with.\u00a0 Alabama, Purdue, Texas and Gonzaga feel to me as a good set of Final 4 teams based on the bracket and current injuries to some of the top teams like UCLA (who I really liked until second leading scorer Jaylen Clark tore his achilles and center Adam Bona injured his shoulder).\u00a0 I always over-analyze things and make last minute changes that likely are bad decisions.\u00a0 Speaking of over-analyzing, lets start handicapping the games.\u00a0 Those who love the blog know that I actually go and handicap all 67 of the games &#8211; normally poorly.\u00a0 At this point, I even have its own blog for the handicapping &#8211; just look at the links on the side of the site for 2023 Handicapping!<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the blog &#8211; probably should maybe stay away from the picks although I did end up slightly ahead last year (a rare event that I am hoping to duplicate this year).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, on the podcast, I gave my opinions on the bracket.\u00a0 And while I might do some more analysis and change a couple of those picks, that is likely what I am going to stick with.\u00a0 Alabama, Purdue, Texas and Gonzaga feel to me as a good set of Final 4 teams based on 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":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2023-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451","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=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions\/2452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}