{"id":3594,"date":"2026-03-27T22:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=3594"},"modified":"2026-03-27T22:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:50:18","slug":"great-games-about-to-tip-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=3594","title":{"rendered":"Great games about to tip off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are 30 minutes away from watching what might be one of the best games of the tournament &#8211; and we are only in the Sweet 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ACC regular season and conference tournament champion Duke (34-2) will be playing the Big East regular season and conference tournament champion St. John\u2019s (30-6).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am still not 100 percent sure how the Red Storm ended up a 5 seed, and who both teams angered in order to put them in the same region with each other.  This probably should be a Regional Final or a Final 4 game &#8211; instead we get to see them play to kick off Friday\u2019s Sweet 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that is just the start.  We got Michigan vs Alabama, UConn vs Michigan State and Iowa State vs Tennessee.  You really can\u2019t ask for a better set of games.  Super looking forward to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are 30 minutes away from watching what might be one of the best games of the tournament &#8211; and we are only in the Sweet 16. The ACC regular season and conference tournament champion Duke (34-2) will be playing the Big East regular season and conference tournament champion St. John\u2019s (30-6). I am still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2026-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594","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=3594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3595,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594\/revisions\/3595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}