{"id":5458,"date":"2011-03-14T18:26:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T18:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/03\/14\/your-cant-miss-ncaa-bracket-fo\/"},"modified":"2011-03-14T18:26:58","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T18:26:58","slug":"your-cant-miss-ncaa-bracket-fo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/03\/14\/your-cant-miss-ncaa-bracket-fo\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Can&#8217;t-Miss NCAA Bracket for 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the <a href=\"http:\/\/williams.prestosports.com\/sports\/mbkb\/2010-11\/releases\/20110312b0yb1f\">really important Final Four has already been decided<\/a>, the Division 1 NCAA basketball championship starts this week, which means it&#8217;s time to fill out your championship brackets. And so, as usual, I present the guaranteed-can&#8217;t-miss-sure-thing method of picking the winner based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/graduate-school.phds.org\/rankings\/physics\/rank\/__M_____________________________________________________________U\">rankings of Ph.D. programs in physics<\/a> (excerpt displayed; click for the full bracket):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-db11e5669b6e912f59ad04f1d533af5b-physics_bracket_2011.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-2c573c9669d2ab2595eb1651caef02ea-sm_physics_bracket_2011.png\" alt=\"i-2c573c9669d2ab2595eb1651caef02ea-sm_physics_bracket_2011.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK, maybe there are a few bugs yet to be worked out with this method&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the really important Final Four has already been decided, the Division 1 NCAA basketball championship starts this week, which means it&#8217;s time to fill out your championship brackets. And so, as usual, I present the guaranteed-can&#8217;t-miss-sure-thing method of picking the winner based on the rankings of Ph.D. programs in physics (excerpt displayed; click&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/03\/14\/your-cant-miss-ncaa-bracket-fo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Your Can&#8217;t-Miss NCAA Bracket for 2011<\/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":[8,26,7,11,24,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-basketball","category-physics","category-science","category-silliness","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458","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=5458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}