{"id":3687,"date":"2026-04-06T23:01:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=3687"},"modified":"2026-04-06T23:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:14:25","slug":"time-for-furious-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=3687","title":{"rendered":"Time for furious blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My old age and need for sleep has made me miss out on several things that I wanted to chime into.  So, I guess I have a couple hours.  To be fair, I could do my grade the conferences after the tournament is over (or any of my other rants), but there is something that doesn&#8217;t seem right about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have already given you all my thoughts on the game.  We have two extremely well coached teams with outstanding defenses playing for the National Championship.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Lunatic being a Purdue alum would love to see the Big 10 finally end the narrative that they can&#8217;t win a national championship.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Watching Michigan beat an incredible Arizona team by 18 makes me believe that they have to be the favorite.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Watching UConn come back to beat Duke (one of the three teams that beat the Wolverines) makes me believe that you certainly can&#8217;t be surprised if UConn wins because they are a team of destiny.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Knowing that Dan Hurley has led the Huskies to win two of the last three national championships also makes me nervous that the Big 10 drought will continue.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Lunatic used to have a theory that champions rise to the top.  In past years, you typically watch as the upsets of the first round lead to the regular season and conference tournament champions of the power conferences heading to the Elite 8 and Final Four.  Michigan won the Big 10 regular season, while UConn got shocked by a game by St. John&#8217;s in the Big East.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Of course, we all know that the Soccer Ball has picked the Huskies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>At the end of the day, I suspect that like in the Arizona\/Michigan game, the team that controls the paint and wins the rebounding battle will win the game.  To beat Michigan, you have to be more physical than them.  UConn can certainly accomplish that goal, but obviously, so was Arizona and the Wolverines dominated them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So, we have rapid fire ranting from the Lunatic &#8211; we will see how many things I can get through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here we go!!!  Super excited &#8211; the championship game is 2 hours away!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My old age and need for sleep has made me miss out on several things that I wanted to chime into. So, I guess I have a couple hours. To be fair, I could do my grade the conferences after the tournament is over (or any of my other rants), but there is something that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3687","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\/3687","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=3687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3690,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions\/3690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}