{"id":20032,"date":"2023-03-23T01:08:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T07:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20032"},"modified":"2023-03-20T15:27:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T21:27:08","slug":"how-sweet-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/how-sweet-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"How Sweet It Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sweet Sixteen kicks off today following an opening weekend with upsets galore, completely wrecking my bracket.\u00a0 Half of my Final Four was wiped out, including my champion.\u00a0 Ugh.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20118\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2023South16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"689\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2023South16.jpg 689w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2023South16-300x292.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/>This region is a wreck, with only one team remaining in the Sweet Sixteen, and that team I had losing in this round, so this one was a dud.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20119\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2023Midwest16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"689\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2023Midwest16.jpg 689w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2023Midwest16-300x292.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/>Things look much better on this side of the bracket, as the only Sweet Sixteen team I had that didn&#8217;t make it is IU and, honestly, I&#8217;m ok with that.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20120\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2023East16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"694\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2023East16.jpg 694w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2023East16-300x290.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/>What a disaster and disappointment this was.\u00a0 Purdue became just the second #1 seed to lose to a #16 seed and the first to lose to a team that had to go through the play-in game in order to make the field of 64.\u00a0 Aside from that, the bracket itself doesn&#8217;t look too bad, but having Purdue win the whole damn thing puts a damper on things.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20121\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2023West16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"694\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2023West16.jpg 694w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2023West16-300x290.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/>A couple of losses here leaves things a little messy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sweet Sixteen kicks off today following an opening weekend with upsets galore, completely wrecking my bracket.\u00a0 Half of my Final Four was wiped out, including my champion.\u00a0 Ugh. 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