{"id":1536,"date":"2011-03-21T09:48:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T17:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2011-03-21T09:48:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T17:48:50","slug":"why-its-called-march-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/why-its-called-march-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Why It&#8217;s Called March Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/NCAA_secondaryc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1537\" title=\"NCAA\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/NCAA_secondaryc-300x77.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"77\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/NCAA_secondaryc-300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/NCAA_secondaryc-1024x263.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/NCAA_secondaryc-342x87.jpg 342w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/NCAA_secondaryc.jpg 1234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Following the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament, fans typically  wake up Monday morning to see their brackets in complete disarray. This  year is no different. Let&#8217;s have a show of hands on who had a VCU-  Florida State matchup in the fourth round? Or how about Richmond and  Marquette advancing? Heck, are we done sleeping on Butler? A team that  once had to win their conference tournament just to get in the dance now  looks like a serious threat to make the Final Four. Regardless of where  your allegiances lie, you no doubt have fourth round matchups like  UCONN vs. San Diego State, Arizona vs. Duke, Ohio St. vs. Kentucky and  BYU vs. Florida circled on your calendar. It&#8217;s going to be a crazy next  couple of weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament, fans typically wake up Monday morning to see their brackets in complete disarray. This year is no different. Let&#8217;s have a show of hands on who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14,16],"tags":[848,849,847,845,846],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-featured-news","category-sports-recreation","tag-byu","tag-florida","tag-kentucky","tag-ncaa","tag-uconn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}