{"id":1665,"date":"2011-03-30T09:44:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T17:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2011-03-30T09:44:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T17:44:10","slug":"the-brilliance-of-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/the-brilliance-of-two\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brilliance Of Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/finalfour2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1666\" title=\"finalfour2011\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/finalfour2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/finalfour2011.jpg 300w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/finalfour2011-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/finalfour2011-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/finalfour2011-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/finalfour2011-55x55.jpg 55w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Out of nearly six million submitted brackets on ESPN.com, only two  people had a Final Four of Kentucky vs. UCONN and Butler vs. Virginia  Commonwealth. While most people are focusing on the fact that nearly 5.9  million people got it wrong, we should instead be focusing on the fact  that ANYBODY was able to pick all four Final Four teams. Okay, maybe  Kentucky and UCONN were on some people&#8217;s brackets (they are established  programs), but Butler? Yeah, they almost won last year, but even if your  a Butler fan, an Elite 8 berth is about as far as you would go. With  that said, you have to say that the only people who had VCU in their  Final Four were people who either go to the school or graduated from  there. In fact, I&#8217;m sure there were people who had Texas San Antonio in  the Final Four as well. But having both VCU and Butler as the last  team&#8217;s standing? That&#8217;s amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of nearly six million submitted brackets on ESPN.com, only two people had a Final Four of Kentucky vs. UCONN and Butler vs. Virginia Commonwealth. While most people are focusing on the fact that nearly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14,16],"tags":[903,879,847,845,846,918],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-featured-news","category-sports-recreation","tag-butler","tag-final-four","tag-kentucky","tag-ncaa","tag-uconn","tag-viriginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","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=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1669,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions\/1669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}