{"id":1280,"date":"2007-03-26T08:37:22","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T08:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/26\/final-four\/"},"modified":"2007-03-26T08:37:22","modified_gmt":"2007-03-26T08:37:22","slug":"final-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/26\/final-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hoops commentary has fallen off dramatically lately, but it&#8217;s not because my teams are out of the tournament. Or, rather, it&#8217;s not <b>just<\/b> because my teams are out of the tournament. Mostly, it&#8217;s because Kate and I were out of town for the weekend, on vacation in Boston, and I barely saw any of the games. I did see the tail end of the UCLA-Kansas game, and the last two mintues and overtime of UNC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/scores.espn.go.com\/ncb\/recap?gameId=274000030\">epic collapse<\/a> against Georgetown last night, but that&#8217;s about it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the chalk-tastic tournament of 2007 has wound down to a fairly unappealing Final Four. I intensely dislike Florida, I&#8217;ve got twenty-odd years of Syracuse fandom telling me to root against Georgetown, UCLA&#8217;s games tend to be cover-your-eyes ugly, and Ohio State is probably the least bad rooting option of the lot, with the only knock on them being that I&#8217;m sick of hearing about the awesomeness of Greg Oden.<\/p>\n<p>The games next weekend should be fairly interesting&#8211; UCLA-Florida is a rematch of last year&#8217;s championship game, and Georgetown-Ohio State offers a match-up of seven-foot cetners (Oden and Georgetown&#8217;s Roy Hibbert). I wouldn&#8217;t expect a whole lot of aethetically pleasing free-flowing basketball, though, but if you&#8217;re into clutching and bumping and physical defense, well, have we got a Final Four for you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoops commentary has fallen off dramatically lately, but it&#8217;s not because my teams are out of the tournament. Or, rather, it&#8217;s not just because my teams are out of the tournament. Mostly, it&#8217;s because Kate and I were out of town for the weekend, on vacation in Boston, and I barely saw any of the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/26\/final-four\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Final Four<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}