{"id":1632,"date":"2011-03-28T09:40:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T17:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2011-03-28T09:40:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T17:40:05","slug":"finally-the-final-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/finally-the-final-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally: The Final Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/2011_NCAA_Basketball_Final_Four_logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1633\" title=\"2011 NCAA\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/2011_NCAA_Basketball_Final_Four_logo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/2011_NCAA_Basketball_Final_Four_logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/2011_NCAA_Basketball_Final_Four_logo-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/2011_NCAA_Basketball_Final_Four_logo-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/2011_NCAA_Basketball_Final_Four_logo-55x55.jpg 55w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Show me one person who had a Final Four consisting of Butler vs.  Virginia Commonwealth, and Kentucky vs. UCONN. In one of the most  fascinating NCAA basketball tournament&#8217;s of all times, we are left with a  Final Four that for first time will not have a number one or number two  seed in it. In the end, you are left with a once dominate team that is  making their first Final Four Appearance since 1998 (Kentucky); a team  that has one nine straight including winning five games in five days to  capture the Big East Tournament (UCONN); a team from the First Four that  talking heads said shouldn&#8217;t have made the tournament (VCU); and a team  that was one half court rim shot from winning last years tourney  (Butler).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Show me one person who had a Final Four consisting of Butler vs. Virginia Commonwealth, and Kentucky vs. UCONN. In one of the most fascinating NCAA basketball tournament&#8217;s of all times, we are left with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[903,393,879,847,845,846,902],"class_list":["post-1632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","category-sports-recreation","tag-butler","tag-college-basketball","tag-final-four","tag-kentucky","tag-ncaa","tag-uconn","tag-vcu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632","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=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1635,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions\/1635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}