{"id":2642,"date":"2023-04-03T02:48:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T02:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2023-04-03T02:48:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T02:48:21","slug":"final-handicapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=2642","title":{"rendered":"Final handicapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final handicapping blog has been posted.\u00a0 The Lunatic figures he wants to see San Diego State win, and that in itself probably bodes poorly for them.\u00a0 Add in it that Connecticut is 4-0 in title games, no 5 seed has won the tournament, and the last non-power conference team to win depending on your opinion of what was a power conference was either UNLV in 1990 or when UConn had switched for a short amount of time to the American to win their title in 2014 under their conference&#8217;s alignment.\u00a0 And the ball from the Lunatic&#8217;s HORSE battle sided with UConn.<\/p>\n<p>So, I have the UConn Huskies to cover the 7.5 in a low-scoring affair under 132.5 points.\u00a0 That will probably be wrong, just like I was on both Final Four games.\u00a0 At this point, it is clear the Lunatic is struggling between his analytic expertise, his sleep deprivation, and his amazing capability to jinx teams.\u00a0 So, who knows what will happen.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, it should be great.\u00a0 This will likely have to be my last post until game time.\u00a0 It is late, and with Katie&#8217;s rugby practice tomorrow, and some of the administrative tasks such as validating the standings are correct in front of me, I will probably be pretty busy until the game starts.\u00a0 But the Lunatic will definitely be excited to watch at 9:20 pm tomorrow when the Connecticut Huskies and San Diego Aztecs will tip-off to determine the men&#8217;s 2023 national championship!!!!\u00a0 Enjoy the championship game!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final handicapping blog has been posted.\u00a0 The Lunatic figures he wants to see San Diego State win, and that in itself probably bodes poorly for them.\u00a0 Add in it that Connecticut is 4-0 in title games, no 5 seed has won the tournament, and the last non-power conference team to win depending on your [&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-2642","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\/2642","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=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2643,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions\/2643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}