{"id":14240,"date":"2024-03-21T12:55:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T16:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=14240"},"modified":"2024-03-21T12:55:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T16:55:07","slug":"ncaa-tournament-challenge-looking-inside-the-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/21\/ncaa-tournament-challenge-looking-inside-the-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Tournament Challenge&#8230;Looking inside the picks&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sportshub.cbsistatic.com\/i\/r\/2024\/03\/07\/8f9c2fdf-9e3c-4e53-8242-ff544ac14e8d\/resize\/100x100\/9b8db90c6b32b692a15f62848cd8eb2f\/mens.png?w=640&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:184px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that the brackets are locked, lets take a look at who everyone thinks will win the NCAA Tournament&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-fe9cc265 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p>19-Connecticut<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13-Purdue<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6-Arizona <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3-Marquette<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2-Houston<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1-Illinois<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, here&#8217;s how the WZBD &#8220;experts&#8221; chose the Final Four, Championship, and point total&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><td>Dave Nathan<\/td><td>Dane Fuelling<\/td><td>Rex Brewer<\/td><td>Mike Macke<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Final Four<\/td><td>Connecticut over Arizona<\/td><td>Connecticut over Arizona<\/td><td>Connecticut over North Carolina<\/td><td>Connecticut over North Carolina<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Final Four<\/td><td>Purdue over Houston<\/td><td>Purdue over Marquette<\/td><td>Purdue over Kentucky<\/td><td>Purdue over Houston<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Championship<\/td><td>Purdue over Connecticut<\/td><td>Purdue over Connecticut<\/td><td>Connecticut over Purdue<\/td><td>Connecticut over Purdue<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Total Points<\/td><td>167<\/td><td>134<\/td><td>160<\/td><td>137<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the brackets are locked, lets take a look at who everyone thinks will win the NCAA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[41,15,82,26],"class_list":["post-14240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-basketball","tag-featured","tag-pickem","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}