{"id":967,"date":"2016-04-05T03:35:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T03:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=967"},"modified":"2016-04-05T03:35:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T03:35:44","slug":"what-a-finish-to-the-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=967","title":{"rendered":"What a finish to the National Championship!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tar Heels found themselves up 5 points at half time, but the early part of the second half was all Villanova.\u00a0\u00a0 And so, with just 5 minutes left, North Carolina was down 10 points.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then, as has happened so many times in this tournament, the comeback began.\u00a0\u00a0 Marcus Paige kept making basket after basket, including a remarkable three pointer with 4.7 seconds left to tie the game at 74.<\/p>\n<p>And then it happened, Ryan Arcidiacono drives the ball up the court and to the three point line, passes the ball to a trailing Kris Jenkins, and with a few split seconds left on the clock, Jenkins calmly nails the three point shot to give the Villanova Wildcats a 77-74 victory, in what might be one of the best finishes that I have ever seen in a National Championship game!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the Villanova Wildcats, the 2016 men&#8217;s national champions!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tar Heels found themselves up 5 points at half time, but the early part of the second half was all Villanova.\u00a0\u00a0 And so, with just 5 minutes left, North Carolina was down 10 points.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then, as has happened so many times in this tournament, the comeback began.\u00a0\u00a0 Marcus Paige kept making basket after basket, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","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=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}