{"id":169,"date":"2004-03-18T23:12:48","date_gmt":"2004-03-18T23:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?p=169"},"modified":"2024-10-02T11:51:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T15:51:48","slug":"ncaa-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2004\/03\/18\/ncaa-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are my Final Four picks. I have no idea this year; I don&#8217;t feel strongly about anyone. Unlike Tulsa in &#8217;00 or Creighton two years ago, I don&#8217;t have a feel for any cinderellas that can make a run to the second weekend. Other than some crazy early round choices, most of the &#8220;expert&#8221; picks I&#8217;ve seen, I can&#8217;t disagree with because things are so open this year. Anyway, here goes:<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky<br \/>\nOklahoma State<br \/>\nMississippi State<br \/>\nStanford<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky beats Mississippi State for the title.<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ll go on record as saying Texas is the most overrated team in the tournament. I think they&#8217;ll win a close game over UNC in the second round, then get bounced out. All these people putting the &#8216;Horns in the Final Four are off their rockers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are my Final Four picks. I have no idea this year; I don&#8217;t feel strongly about anyone. Unlike Tulsa in &#8217;00 or Creighton two years ago, I don&#8217;t have a feel for any cinderellas that can make a run to the second weekend. Other than some crazy early round choices, most of the &#8220;expert&#8221; picks I&#8217;ve seen, I can&#8217;t disagree with because things are so open this year. Anyway, here goes: Kentucky Oklahoma State Mississippi State Stanford Kentucky beats Mississippi State for the title. And I&#8217;ll go on record as saying Texas is the most overrated team in the tournament. I think they&#8217;ll win a close game over UNC in the second round, then get bounced out. All these people putting the &#8216;Horns in the Final Four are off their rockers. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,52],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-basketball","tag-college-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15698,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/15698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}