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<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NCAA tournament returns in full force after a year break in 2020 and a bubble tournament centered in Indianapolis in 2021 due to the pandemic.\u00a0 I’m not in any pools this year, so these selections have no ultimate bearing on my life, aside from personal pride.\u00a0 So, without further ado, let’s take a look […]<\/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":[3316,2134,3313,5524,7896,2104,289,3311,10003,10004,8386,2118,2135,7892,2116,4602,2108,1367,5525,2140,5800,2701,2096,2100,10009,2125,2094,10005,7880,5528,2119,2112,3327,2132,2110,10002,2117,1527,2101,2123,2136,2106,2138,4603,10008,2624,2130,10006,6579,3320,2126,10007,7898,4614,2143,5526,7878,5539,3317,2097,6577,7348,3315,7891,2146,7889,8383],"class_list":["post-18720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","tag-akron","tag-alabama","tag-arizona","tag-arkansas","tag-auburn","tag-baylor","tag-boiler-up","tag-boise-state","tag-bryant","tag-chattanooga","tag-colgate","tag-colorado-state","tag-creighton","tag-csu-fullerton","tag-davidson","tag-delaware","tag-duke","tag-fighting-illini","tag-georgia-state","tag-gonzaga","tag-houston","tag-iowa","tag-iowa-state","tag-iu","tag-jacksonville-state","tag-kansas","tag-kentucky","tag-longwood","tag-loyola-chicago","tag-lsu","tag-marquette","tag-memphis","tag-miami","tag-michigan","tag-michigan-state","tag-montana-state","tag-murray-state","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-new-mexico-state","tag-norfolk-state","tag-north-carolina","tag-notre-dame","tag-ohio-state","tag-providence","tag-richmond","tag-rutgers","tag-san-diego-state","tag-san-francisco","tag-seton-hall","tag-south-dakota-state","tag-st-marys","tag-st-peters","tag-tcu","tag-tennessee","tag-texas","tag-texas-southern","tag-texas-tech","tag-uab","tag-ucla","tag-uconn","tag-usc","tag-vermont","tag-villanova","tag-virginia-tech","tag-wisconsin","tag-wright-state","tag-yale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18720","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=18720"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18842,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18720\/revisions\/18842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Gonzaga is the overall #1 and my pick to come out of this region and moving on to the Final Four.\u00a0 I did throw the occasional upset in the earlier rounds, so we’ll see how those pay off.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022South.jpg\")
A bit of an upset here, as I have #3 Tennessee advancing.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022East.jpg\")
Thanks to some sloppy play down the stretch, Purdue falls to the #3 seed.\u00a0 This is tough, because I can see them losing in the second round just as much as I can see them going all the way.\u00a0 So, I’m going more with my heart than with my brain and picking them to escape this region and make their first Final Four since 1980.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022Midwest.jpg\")
Well, let’s go upsets all the way and put another Big 10 team in the Final Four.<\/p>\n