{"id":804,"date":"2015-04-07T03:53:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T03:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=804"},"modified":"2015-04-07T03:53:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T03:53:05","slug":"congratulations-to-the-duke-blue-devils-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=804","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to the Duke Blue Devils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is amazing how heroes can be made in the tournament.\u00a0 With star center Okafor on the bench in foul trouble, Wisconsin extended the lead to 9 points &#8211; the largest deficit that Duke had seen all tournament.\u00a0\u00a0 Then came backup freshman guard Grayson Allen.<\/p>\n<p>Over the season, Allen averaged 8.9 minutes and 4 points.\u00a0 But none of that matters in the tournament.\u00a0\u00a0 Allen hit a huge three pointer, and then made two big drives getting a basket and drawing fouls to score the Blue Devils next 8 points and get the game back to within 4.\u00a0\u00a0 Then, Tyus Jones scored 13 of his 23 points to carry the Blue Devils to an amazing comeback victory.<\/p>\n<p>It was amazing game, and a shame that someone had to lose the game.\u00a0 The Wisconsin players did fantastic &#8211; and had a tremendous season.\u00a0 But it was the Duke Blue Devils who eventually did just a little more to win this game.\u00a0 Congratulations to the 2015 NCAA Champions &#8211; the Duke Blue Devils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is amazing how heroes can be made in the tournament.\u00a0 With star center Okafor on the bench in foul trouble, Wisconsin extended the lead to 9 points &#8211; the largest deficit that Duke had seen all tournament.\u00a0\u00a0 Then came backup freshman guard Grayson Allen. Over the season, Allen averaged 8.9 minutes and 4 points.\u00a0 [&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-804","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\/804","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=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}