{"id":751,"date":"2015-03-22T18:30:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T18:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=751"},"modified":"2015-03-22T18:30:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T18:30:15","slug":"the-east-region-just-got-blown-wide-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=751","title":{"rendered":"The East Region just got blown wide open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia looked like they got a huge opportunity on Saturday night, when fellow ACC school, NC State took out the #1 seed in the East.\u00a0 Unfortunately for the Cavaliers, their game on Sunday was against Michigan State.<\/p>\n<p>The Spartans jumped out quickly to a 15-4 lead and never looked back.\u00a0\u00a0 While the Cavaliers managed to close the gap through their amazing defense, the Michigan State&#8217;s defense was just as good.\u00a0 And Travis Trice hit a big three pointer with about 2 and a half minutes left to give the Spartans a large enough lead to hold off Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>So, for the first time since 2004, a region will have neither of its top 2 seeds in the Sweet 16.\u00a0\u00a0 Congratulations to Michigan State on a fantastic victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia looked like they got a huge opportunity on Saturday night, when fellow ACC school, NC State took out the #1 seed in the East.\u00a0 Unfortunately for the Cavaliers, their game on Sunday was against Michigan State. The Spartans jumped out quickly to a 15-4 lead and never looked back.\u00a0\u00a0 While the Cavaliers managed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","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=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}