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<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s that time of year again, as the nation\u2019s attention turns to the college hoops scene for the next few weeks. I\u2019m down to just two pools this year; one at my mom\u2019s work, and one run by a friend, as the work pool died due to lack of interest.\u00a0 If it weren’t for my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[2134,3313,5524,7896,289,3326,5522,3325,7897,2144,7879,2135,7892,2116,2108,320,2142,5525,2140,5800,3314,2125,2150,2094,7894,7880,7818,3327,2132,2110,2122,2145,2117,2129,1527,7346,2101,2136,2138,3321,7895,4603,7890,7899,2130,6579,4594,3320,2141,2152,7898,4614,2143,6578,5526,7878,7881,7893,3315,2121,7891,2139,2098,7889,2107],"class_list":["post-13424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","tag-alabama","tag-arizona","tag-arkansas","tag-auburn","tag-boiler-up","tag-bucknell","tag-buffalo","tag-butler","tag-charleston","tag-cincinnati","tag-clemson","tag-creighton","tag-csu-fullerton","tag-davidson","tag-duke","tag-florida","tag-florida-state","tag-georgia-state","tag-gonzaga","tag-houston","tag-iona","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-state","tag-kentucky","tag-lipscomb","tag-loyola-chicago","tag-marshall","tag-miami","tag-michigan","tag-michigan-state","tag-missouri","tag-montana","tag-murray-state","tag-nc-state","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-nevada","tag-new-mexico-state","tag-north-carolina","tag-ohio-state","tag-oklahoma","tag-penn","tag-providence","tag-radford","tag-rhode-island","tag-san-diego-state","tag-seton-hall","tag-sf-austin","tag-south-dakota-state","tag-st-bonaventure","tag-syracuse","tag-tcu","tag-tennessee","tag-texas","tag-texas-am","tag-texas-southern","tag-texas-tech","tag-umbc","tag-unc-greensboro","tag-villanova","tag-virginia","tag-virginia-tech","tag-west-virginia","tag-wichita-state","tag-wright-state","tag-xavier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13424"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13538,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13424\/revisions\/13538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>A couple of upsets make up my first bracket, with the #2 seed, the Bearcats of Cincinnati, being my pick to advance to the Final Four.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018East.jpg\")
<\/a>After some late season stumbles, Purdue winds up as the #2 seed.\u00a0 Villanova is the early favorite to win the whole thing, and, using my head instead of my heart, I’m picking them to come out of the East.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018West.jpg\")
<\/a>Another #1 seed heading to the Final Four.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018Midwest.jpg\")
<\/a>The Midwest Region should have a Big 10 school standing tall at the end, if I’m correct with my selections.<\/p>\n