{"id":24,"date":"2006-04-04T08:09:30","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T16:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2006-04-04T08:09:30","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T16:09:30","slug":"tournament-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/04\/tournament-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Tournament Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NCAA Tournament is over.\u00a0 After a wonderful first two weeks, the Final Four and championship games were all a vast disappointment.\u00a0 Congratulations to Florida on a strong run through the field.<\/p>\n<p>To follow-up from my previous post regarding the tournament, all of my complaints were valid.\u00a0 None of the automatic bids from small conferences made it all that deep in the tournament, and Bradley was the only one that made it to the Sweet 16.\u00a0 Even George Mason, while known by few people, was an at-large birth, proving my point that using only at-large picks can still yield Cinderella stories.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, as always, a team from a large conference (SEC) won it all.\u00a0 I would like to see a smaller school win it all sometime, of course given that they earned their way into the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Now I will be void of good basketball (the NBA is a show, not a sport, but that&#8217;s for another day if at all) for another 8 months give or take.\u00a0 What will I do with my time?\u00a0 I&#8217;ll find something.<\/p>\n<p>Catch you all later.\u00a0 Have a wonderful day!<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/04\/tournament-recap\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-facebook-plugin\/facebook_share_icon.gif\" alt=\"Share on Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NCAA Tournament is over.\u00a0 After a wonderful first two weeks, the Final Four and championship games were all a vast disappointment.\u00a0 Congratulations to Florida on a strong run through the field.<br \/>\nTo follow-up from my previous post regarding the tournament, all of my complaints were valid.\u00a0 None of the automatic bids from small conferences made [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/04\/tournament-recap\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-facebook-plugin\/facebook_share_icon.gif\" alt=\"Share on Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ncaa-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}