{"id":2759,"date":"2024-03-12T01:52:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T01:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2024-03-12T01:52:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T01:52:17","slug":"two-more-tickets-punched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=2759","title":{"rendered":"Two more tickets punched"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Congratulations to James Madison and Samford, as they won their conference tournaments.  And the Selection Committee thanks the Dukes and Bulldogs, since they do not need to consider leaving out a team that has won 30 or 28 games.  Both teams managed to win one more &#8211; and make the debate a seeding debate instead of a selection debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And as I realize it is almost 10 pm, I start to realize the potential for significant late evenings.  The Lunatic is getting old &#8211; not sure sleep deprivation is a good idea.  Need to consider if I create my conference board to be used for bracketology &#8211; or try to get some sleep before the tournament comes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh look &#8211; St. Mary\u2019s is only up 7 at halftime against Santa Clara.  Maybe I can watch one more half of basketball\u2026..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to James Madison and Samford, as they won their conference tournaments. And the Selection Committee thanks the Dukes and Bulldogs, since they do not need to consider leaving out a team that has won 30 or 28 games. Both teams managed to win one more &#8211; and make the debate a seeding debate instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2024-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759","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=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2760,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions\/2760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}