{"id":21150,"date":"2024-03-28T07:05:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T13:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=21150"},"modified":"2024-03-25T07:35:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T13:35:31","slug":"how-sweet-16-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/how-sweet-16-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"How Sweet (16) It Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sweet Sixteen kicks off today following an opening weekend with upsets galore that played havoc with my bracket, although my entire Final Four is still intact, which is better than some.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21277 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2024East16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2024East16.jpg 636w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2024East16-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/>Things look pretty decent here.\u00a0 Auburn&#8217;s loss to Yale knocked me for a bit of a loop, but, aside from that, things are fairly clean, with three of the four teams heading into this weekend still alive.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21278\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2024South16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2024South16.jpg 636w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2024South16-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/>Things are slightly worse on this side of the bracket, with just two of the four teams I picked playing this weekend.\u00a0 While Nebraska did me dirty, I correctly picked that Wisconsin had peaked after beating Purdue in the Big Ten Tournament two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21279\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2024West16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2024West16.jpg 627w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2024West16-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/>I don&#8217;t have a clean game left in the West region, with just 50% of the remaining teams correct.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21280\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2024Midwest16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"632\" height=\"809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2024Midwest16.jpg 632w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2024Midwest16-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/>Purdue did everything it needed to do last weekend to advance to the Sweet Sixteen and exorcise some of the demons from last year&#8217;s debacle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sweet Sixteen kicks off today following an opening weekend with upsets galore that played havoc with my bracket, although my entire Final Four is still intact, which is better than some. Things look pretty decent here.\u00a0 Auburn&#8217;s loss to Yale knocked me for a bit of a loop, but, aside from that, things are [&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":[2134,3313,7896,2104,5520,289,2135,2108,1367,2140,5800,2096,2119,2129,1527,2700,2136,2130,4614,2097,2146,8383],"class_list":["post-21150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","tag-alabama","tag-arizona","tag-auburn","tag-baylor","tag-big-ten-tournament","tag-boiler-up","tag-creighton","tag-duke","tag-fighting-illini","tag-gonzaga","tag-houston","tag-iowa-state","tag-marquette","tag-nc-state","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-nebraska","tag-north-carolina","tag-san-diego-state","tag-tennessee","tag-uconn","tag-wisconsin","tag-yale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21150","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21281,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21150\/revisions\/21281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}