{"id":21291,"date":"2024-03-31T23:33:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T05:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=21291"},"modified":"2024-04-01T06:46:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T12:46:56","slug":"finally-heading-to-the-final-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/finally-heading-to-the-final-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, Heading To The Final Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/purdueFinalFour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21292\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/purdueFinalFour.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"657\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/purdueFinalFour.jpg 657w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/purdueFinalFour-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/a>For the first time since 1980, the Purdue Boilermakers are headed to the Final Four.\u00a0 This afternoon&#8217;s victory over Tennessee in the Elite Eight showdown at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit gives Purdue its first regional championship in the men&#8217;s NCAA tournament in 44 years.\u00a0 The team will battle NC State Saturday in Phoenix for their shot to advance to the championship game.<\/p>\n<p>What a weekend in Detroit!\u00a0 Seeing a Sweet Sixteen victory against Gonzaga on Friday followed by today&#8217;s win against Tennessee, both teams that we had already defeated this year during non-conference play, was exhilarating and. to be honest, a little nerve racking.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s looking forward to an exciting weekend as the school looks for its first basketball championship since the women&#8217;s team won it all in 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since 1980, the Purdue Boilermakers are headed to the Final Four.\u00a0 This afternoon&#8217;s victory over Tennessee in the Elite Eight showdown at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit gives Purdue its first regional championship in the men&#8217;s NCAA tournament in 44 years.\u00a0 The team will battle NC State Saturday in Phoenix for [&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":[289,2140,11206,2129,1527,4614],"class_list":["post-21291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","tag-boiler-up","tag-gonzaga","tag-little-caesars-arena","tag-nc-state","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-tennessee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21291","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=21291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21293,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21291\/revisions\/21293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}