{"id":18722,"date":"2022-03-24T01:08:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T07:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=18722"},"modified":"2022-03-22T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T22:10:00","slug":"down-to-sixteen-and-still-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/down-to-sixteen-and-still-dancing\/","title":{"rendered":"Down To Sixteen And Still Dancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sweet 16 kicks off today following an opening weekend with upsets galore, but, thankfully, with my champion pick still alive.\u00a0 Unfortunately, half of my Final Four was wiped out, but, hey, that&#8217;s the fun part.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18853\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022West16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"631\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022West16.jpg 631w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022West16-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\" \/>Only a couple of Xs in this region, though one of them I had going to the regional final.\u00a0 Michigan State allowed Coach K&#8217;s last go-around to continue and helped contribute to the Big 10&#8217;s supposed flameout during the first weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022South16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18854\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022South16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022South16.jpg 629w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022South16-300x298.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022South16-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/a>Well, this side of the bracket is where my Final Four picks have flamed out, so nothing here really matters.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18855\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022East16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022East16.jpg 636w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022East16-300x288.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/>The 1- and 2-seeds both got knocked out, leaving Purdue with its best opportunity to reach the Final Four in decades.\u00a0 But first, they will have to vanquish this year&#8217;s Cinderella team of St. Peter&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18856\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022Midwest16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"633\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022Midwest16.jpg 633w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022Midwest16-300x291.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\" \/>The Big 10 let me down here, as both Iowa and Wisconsin flamed out early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sweet 16 kicks off today following an opening weekend with upsets galore, but, thankfully, with my champion pick still alive.\u00a0 Unfortunately, half of my Final Four was wiped out, but, hey, that&#8217;s the fun part. Only a couple of Xs in this region, though one of them I had going to the regional final.\u00a0 [&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":[3313,5524,2698,289,2108,2140,5800,2701,2096,2125,3327,2132,2110,10014,1527,2136,4603,10007,7878,3317,3315,2146],"class_list":["post-18722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","tag-arizona","tag-arkansas","tag-big-ten","tag-boiler-up","tag-duke","tag-gonzaga","tag-houston","tag-iowa","tag-iowa-state","tag-kansas","tag-miami","tag-michigan","tag-michigan-state","tag-mike-krzyzewski","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-north-carolina","tag-providence","tag-st-peters","tag-texas-tech","tag-ucla","tag-villanova","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18722","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=18722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18857,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18722\/revisions\/18857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}