{"id":1424,"date":"2006-03-15T23:52:33","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T05:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2006-03-15T23:53:36","modified_gmt":"2006-03-16T05:53:36","slug":"that-time-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1424","title":{"rendered":"That Time of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry, folks, no real blogging tonight. I’ve been busy filling out my March Madness brackets. One bracket for the blogosphere, free of charge courtesy of Six Meat Buffet<\/a>. Three for the office pool at ten bucks a pop. Hey, I won it all in 2000 and figure I’m financially ahead of the curve for many, many years to come.<\/p>\n

Just so I can look like an idiot, I’ll go ahead and publish my probably pathetic prognostications.<\/p>\n

Office #1:<\/strong>
\nFinal Four — Duke, Gonzaga, UConn, BC
\nFinals — Duke, UConn
\nChamp — Duke
\nTexas A&M reaches the Sweet 16 (hey, I said<\/a> there might be a toll to be paid by their reaching the Dance)<\/p>\n

Office #2:<\/strong>
\nFinal Four — Texas, Memphis, UConn, Florida
\nFinals — Texas (grrrrr! that hurt to enter), UConn
\nChamp — UConn
\nA&M falls to ‘Cuse in the first round<\/p>\n

Office #3 (went somewhat wacko):<\/strong>
\nFinal Four — LSU, Pitt, UConn, ‘Nova
\nFinals — Pitt, ‘Nova
\nChamp — ‘Nova
\nA&M falls to LSU but loves their first NCAA tourney win since 1980<\/p>\n

Six Meat Buffet’s Basketball Challenge:<\/strong>
\nSame as Office #1 but with UConn winning the championship over Duke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sorry, folks, no real blogging tonight. I’ve been busy filling out my March Madness brackets. One bracket for the blogosphere, free of charge courtesy of Six Meat Buffet. Three for the office pool at ten bucks a pop. Hey, I won it all in 2000 and figure I’m financially ahead of the curve for many, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}