{"id":15788,"date":"2021-03-25T05:31:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T11:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=15788"},"modified":"2021-03-24T16:49:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T22:49:04","slug":"the-sweet-sixteen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/the-sweet-sixteen-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sweet Sixteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We enter the Sweet 16 with upsets galore. leaving me without my champion pick, An Ohio State University, who lost to a 15 seed in the opening round.\u00a0 My Boilermakers also crapped out in the first round, making my trip to Indianapolis last weekend a questionable decision.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021West16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17238\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021West16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"659\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021West16.jpg 692w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021West16-300x286.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a>Gonzaga, the overall #1 seed, has to be even more of a favorite to win the whole thing at this point.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021South16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17239\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021South16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"661\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021South16.jpg 696w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021South16-300x285.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/a>The Big Ten did me wrong in this region, as both Purdue and Ohio State were upset in the first round.\u00a0\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021East16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17240\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021East16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"686\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021East16.jpg 686w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021East16-300x287.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/><\/a>I got 4 of the first round games wrong here, which may be my worst performance of all time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021Midwest16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17241\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021Midwest16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021Midwest16.jpg 696w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021Midwest16-300x289.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/a>Well, I just so happened to pick the big upset in this region, with Loyola overtaking their downstate &#8220;rivals&#8221; from Champaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We enter the Sweet 16 with upsets galore. leaving me without my champion pick, An Ohio State University, who lost to a 15 seed in the opening round.\u00a0 My Boilermakers also crapped out in the first round, making my trip to Indianapolis last weekend a questionable decision. Gonzaga, the overall #1 seed, has to be [&hellip;]<\/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":[2134,5524,2104,2698,289,2135,2142,2140,5800,7880,2132,2138,9330,3304,9333,2152,3317,6577,3315],"class_list":["post-15788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","tag-alabama","tag-arkansas","tag-baylor","tag-big-ten","tag-boiler-up","tag-creighton","tag-florida-state","tag-gonzaga","tag-houston","tag-loyola-chicago","tag-michigan","tag-ohio-state","tag-oral-roberts","tag-oregon","tag-oregon-state","tag-syracuse","tag-ucla","tag-usc","tag-villanova"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15788","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=15788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17242,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15788\/revisions\/17242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}