{"id":1511,"date":"2012-03-22T07:13:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T13:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2012-03-19T19:39:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T01:39:26","slug":"sheets-of-integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/sheets-of-integrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheets Of Integrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the opening weekend certainly played havoc on most everyone&#8217;s brackets.\u00a0 Two #2 seeds fall in the first round to #15 seeds?\u00a0 It had only happened 4 times ever prior to this year&#8217;s tournament and then twice in one day last Friday. \u00a0 Another #2 should have fallen on Sunday to an upstart Purdue team that lead the entire way, before deciding they didn&#8217;t need to have an offensive plan for the final minute. \u00a0All things considered, a Sweet Sixteen that doesn&#8217;t include Duke can&#8217;t be all bad. \u00a0Let&#8217;s take a look at my 2 brackets heading into today&#8217;s action.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/madness1s16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1544\" title=\"madness1s16\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/madness1s16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"968\" height=\"912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/madness1s16.jpg 968w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/madness1s16-300x282.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 968px) 100vw, 968px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a lot of black Xs on the sheet, although only one in the Final Four and both of my championship teams are still alive.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/madness2s16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1545\" title=\"madness2s16\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/madness2s16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"964\" height=\"904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/madness2s16.jpg 964w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/madness2s16-300x281.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 964px) 100vw, 964px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis one actually has a better score currently, but is down 2 Final Four entrants and 1 participant in the championship game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the opening weekend certainly played havoc on most everyone&#8217;s brackets.\u00a0 Two #2 seeds fall in the first round to #15 seeds?\u00a0 It had only happened 4 times ever prior to this year&#8217;s tournament and then twice in one day last Friday. \u00a0 Another #2 should have fallen on Sunday to an upstart Purdue team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[2104,289,2108,2172,2125,2094,2115,2119,2110,1527,2136,2138,2152,2146],"class_list":["post-1511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","tag-baylor","tag-boiler-up","tag-duke","tag-indiana","tag-kansas","tag-kentucky","tag-louisville","tag-marquette","tag-michigan-state","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-north-carolina","tag-ohio-state","tag-syracuse","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}