{"id":3622,"date":"2026-03-29T23:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T23:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2026-03-29T23:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T23:43:17","slug":"what-just-happened-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=3622","title":{"rendered":"What just happened?!?!?!?!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have a few things to do before I can get back to the blog.  But the standings are at least updated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That was ridiculously crazy!!!!!!  So insane!!!!  There were three teams all year that seemed to be a tier above everyone &#8211; Michigan, Arizona and Duke.  While the South Region broke down once Florida lost and Illinois beat Houston, the rest of the power structure seemed to be in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Purdue challenged Arizona for a half, but then the Wildcats kicked in a different level of play.  Tennessee challenged Michigan for 10 minutes, but then the Wolverines kicked in a different level of play.  When Duke jumped out to a double digit lead on UConn, it simply looked like the third remaining favorite was doing what the other two favorites did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then March happened in a moment that is going to be remembered for a long time to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lunatic will eventually catch up, he needs to watch some things again to get all the full details of that amazing finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a few things to do before I can get back to the blog. But the standings are at least updated. That was ridiculously crazy!!!!!! So insane!!!! There were three teams all year that seemed to be a tier above everyone &#8211; Michigan, Arizona and Duke. While the South Region broke down once Florida [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622","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=3622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3623,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions\/3623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}