{"id":2508,"date":"2023-03-19T03:23:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T03:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=2508"},"modified":"2023-03-19T03:23:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T03:23:16","slug":"the-chalk-is-fighting-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=2508","title":{"rendered":"The chalk is fighting back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What at one point looked like it could be a catastrophic day for the favorites has calmed down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am so impressed with what Houston did.  They were down 11 points.  Sasser has been hurt, and still scored 22 points before foul trouble caused him to miss a good chunk of the second half.  Jamal Shead also had to sit for a while with 4 fouls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, the Houston bench played some key extra minutes down the stretch, Tramon Mark scored 26 pointe, and the Cougars outscores the Tigers 50-23 to come back and win comfortably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final three games saw Big 10 schools trying to pull off an upset.  Penn State came back to take a 3 minute lead with about 5 minutes left.  But they had no answer for Dylan Disu, who led Texas with 28 points on 14-20 shooting.  Texas won by 5, survived and advanced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UCLA found their double digit lead disappear with about 10 minutes.  But Jaime Jaquez Jr scored 24, Tyger Campbell went 12-12 from the line, and the Bruins escaped with a 5 point victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So that leaves us with one last game.  Alabama was up on Maryland by 5 at halftime &#8211; only time will tell if the Big 10 upset bids all fall short.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What at one point looked like it could be a catastrophic day for the favorites has calmed down. I am so impressed with what Houston did. They were down 11 points. Sasser has been hurt, and still scored 22 points before foul trouble caused him to miss a good chunk of the second half. Jamal [&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-2508","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\/2508","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=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2509,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}