{"id":497,"date":"2013-03-27T00:03:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T00:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=497"},"modified":"2013-03-27T00:10:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T00:10:54","slug":"expert-analysis-on-the-sweet-16-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"Expert Analysis on the Sweet 16 games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expert Analysis on the Sweet 16 games &#8211; as only the Lunatic website can bring you.\u00a0 And yes &#8211; the colors are the favorite colors of our &#8220;experts&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Miami FL vs Marquette<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Crazed Lunatic &#8211; Miami FL &#8211; Miami has a really veteran team that doesn&#8217;t seem to get rattled by anything.\u00a0 And believe that Marquette has used up all their magic just to get to the Sweet 16.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Mrs. Lunatic &#8211; Go Marquette &#8211; got to go for the Jesuit schools (after what happened to Gonzaga and Georgetown, one of them has to be on the right side) &#8211; just a reminder that the new Pope is a Jesuit.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Charlie &#8211; Marquette &#8211; have to take the Golden Eagles over Hurricanes.\u00a0 Hurricanes are too scary.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Katie &#8211; Miami FL &#8211; It remains a mystery of why<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Ohio State vs Arizona<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Crazed Lunatic <\/span><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">&#8211; Ohio State &#8211; the Big 10 has been really dominant in the tournament so<\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #339966;\">far.\u00a0 And the Buckeyes are only going to have confidence that they were able to win against Iowa State without their best performance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Mrs. Lunatic &#8211; Arizona &#8211; Got to go with what is basically the home team<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Charlie &#8211; Ohio State &#8211; my Grandma went to Ohio State &#8211; go Buckeyes!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Katie &#8211; St. Mary&#8217;s &#8211; that is my pre-school.\u00a0 they have a very strong program.\u00a0 (Editor&#8217;s note: yes &#8211; my three year old picked St. Mary&#8217;s for this game &#8211; since that is not a possibility, we will go to Vegas Odds and pick Ohio State).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Indiana vs. Syracuse<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Crazed Lunatic &#8211; Indiana &#8211; I thought they were the best team going into the tournament.\u00a0 Feel like I can&#8217;t go against them now.\u00a0 Besides &#8211; my logic of all the teams I pick lose has to work eventually &#8211; right&#8230;.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Mrs. Lunatic &#8211; Syracuse &#8211; you just can&#8217;t root for Indiana.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Charlie &#8211; Syracuse &#8211; my mommy&#8217;s favorite color is Orange.\u00a0 Syracuse&#8217;s name is the Orange.\u00a0 My mommy is the best &#8211; so obviously so is Syracuse.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Katie &#8211; Cuse.\u00a0 Are we almost done with this &#8211; I would like to watch Peppa Pig.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Wichita State vs. LaSalle<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Crazed Lunatic &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\"> LaSalle &#8211; I just don&#8217;t know enough about either of these teams.\u00a0 Was really impressed with LaSalle&#8217;s guards in the last game.\u00a0 And I don&#8217;t think Wichita State can shoot lights out like they did against Gonzaga.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Mrs. Lunatic &#8211; LaSalle &#8211; I think LaSalle is a neater name &#8211; and obviously have to root for the 13 seed<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Charlie &#8211; LaSalle &#8211; when asked why, got the response &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Know&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Katie &#8211; Sal &#8211; I can&#8217;t even pronounce the other teams name<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Louisville vs. Oregon<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Crazed Lunatic &#8211; Louisville &#8211; they just look amazingly good right now.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t think Oregon will be able to keep up to Louisville&#8217;s pressure defense.\u00a0 Turnovers will eventually do in the Ducks.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Mrs. Lunatic &#8211; Oregon &#8211; I just don&#8217;t like Louisville.\u00a0 I typically don&#8217;t pick schools from indiana, Kentucky or Florida.\u00a0 You just have to have principles.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Charlie &#8211; Louisville &#8211; their mascot is the Cardinal which is red &#8211; that is my favorite color.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Katie &#8211; Louieil &#8211; they were the first team you said so I will pick them<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Kansas vs. Michigan<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Crazed Lunatic &#8211; Kansas &#8211; I think Michigan&#8217;s blowout win against VCU was more of a matchup nightmare than the Wolverines being dominant.\u00a0 I think that Kansas will give Michigan difficulty in the paint &#8211; which is very similar to the Big 10 teams that gave the Wolverines trouble.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Mrs. Lunatic &#8211; Kansas &#8211; I guess &#8211; I don&#8217;t really care for either team.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Charlie &#8211; Michigan &#8211; they are Wolverines &#8211; they would tear apart a Jayhawk.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Katie &#8211; Michigan &#8211; seriously, isn&#8217;t it time for Peppa Pig yet?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Duke vs. Michigan State<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Crazed Lunatic &#8211; Michigan State &#8211; I have just learned not to bet against Tom Izzo in March.\u00a0 Duke has more talent &#8211; but the passion that the Spartans play with is going to be an intangible that leads them to victory.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Mrs. Lunatic &#8211; Duke &#8211; always root for teams from Carolina.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Charlie &#8211; Duke &#8211; my Grandpa did his PostDoc at Duke.\u00a0 Not as good as picking North Carolina &#8211; who has a cool fight song &#8211; but still better than Michigan State.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Katie &#8211; Duke &#8211; favorite by Vegas Odds and a school my Grandpa is affiliated with &#8211; how can you go wrong with that.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;\">Florida vs. Florida Gulf Coast<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Crazed Lunatic &#8211; Florida &#8211; I really want the Eagles to win.\u00a0 That would be the better story.\u00a0 But if I have to pick who I think will win, I think Florida is going to have too much firepower.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Mrs. Lunatic &#8211; Florida Gulf Coast &#8211; Go Eagles &#8211; I can make an exception for my Florida rule for a 15 seed &#8211; not to mention what can I do, they are both from Florida.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Charlie &#8211; Florida Gulf Coast &#8211; Go Eagles!!!!!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Katie &#8211; Eagles!!!!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Who do you have to win it all?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><\/strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Crazed Lunatic &#8211; Indiana &#8211; I am tempted to go with Ohio State because I think their road to the Final Four might be the easiest.\u00a0 Or of course, Louisville &#8211; they looked incredibly good in the first weekend.\u00a0 But I will stubbornly stick with my initial pick to win.\u00a0\u00a0 Might need to hedge my second chance pick &#8211; but my analysis said the Hoosiers will win.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Mrs. Lunatic &#8211; Florida Gulf Coast &#8211; how awesome would that be.\u00a0 GO EAGLES!!!!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Charlie &#8211; Ohio State &#8211; have to go with the school that Grandma went to.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Katie &#8211; Duke &#8211; have to go with the school Grandpa went to.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Charlie and Katie: Can we have an ice pop or cookies before going to bed????<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Lunatic: Sure, I guess &#8211; you did a good job of picking teams.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As I said, expert analysis and commentary that you can&#8217;t get anywhere else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expert Analysis on the Sweet 16 games &#8211; as only the Lunatic website can bring you.\u00a0 And yes &#8211; the colors are the favorite colors of our &#8220;experts&#8221; Miami FL vs Marquette Crazed Lunatic &#8211; Miami FL &#8211; Miami has a really veteran team that doesn&#8217;t seem to get rattled by anything.\u00a0 And believe that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","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=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}