{"id":1585,"date":"2011-03-25T10:35:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T18:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2011-03-25T10:35:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T18:35:09","slug":"the-road-to-the-final-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/the-road-to-the-final-four\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road To The Final Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/40-261Butler_Wisconsin_Milwaukee_Basketball.sff_.standalone.prod_affiliate.6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1586\" title=\"ncaa\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/40-261Butler_Wisconsin_Milwaukee_Basketball.sff_.standalone.prod_affiliate.6-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/40-261Butler_Wisconsin_Milwaukee_Basketball.sff_.standalone.prod_affiliate.6-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/40-261Butler_Wisconsin_Milwaukee_Basketball.sff_.standalone.prod_affiliate.6-342x249.jpg 342w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/40-261Butler_Wisconsin_Milwaukee_Basketball.sff_.standalone.prod_affiliate.6-60x45.jpg 60w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/40-261Butler_Wisconsin_Milwaukee_Basketball.sff_.standalone.prod_affiliate.6-90x65.jpg 90w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/40-261Butler_Wisconsin_Milwaukee_Basketball.sff_.standalone.prod_affiliate.6.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Sunday evening we will have our NCAA Final Four in place, and while  popular opinion is that it will be Ohio State, Duke, Kansas and Florida,  things have a tendency to not fall into place so easily, especially  this year. Though it might sound crazy, teams like Marquette, VCU, BYU  and Butler have looked just as good in the opening rounds. In fact, VCU  has looked like one of the most dominate teams in the entire tournament.  Is it out of the question that we can see a Marquette, Arizona, Butler,  VCU Final Four? Probably not, but with the way that those teams are  playing, who would complain? Expect at least two of the Final Four  favorites to go down this weekend with Duke and Florida in the most  trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sunday evening we will have our NCAA Final Four in place, and while popular opinion is that it will be Ohio State, Duke, Kansas and Florida, things have a tendency to not fall into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[880,881,879,845,452],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","category-sports-recreation","tag-basketball","tag-college","tag-final-four","tag-ncaa","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","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=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1589,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/1589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}