{"id":139,"date":"2008-03-20T06:18:13","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T11:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=139"},"modified":"2008-03-20T06:18:43","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T11:18:43","slug":"an-interesting-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"An Interesting Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Way back in November, I wrote a piece<\/a> outlining the eight teams that I thought had a chance to win the championship.\u00a0 They were (in a relative order):\u00a0 UCLA (the favorite), Tennessee, Memphis, North Carolina, Kansas, Georgetown, Louisville and Michigan St.\u00a0 Now, on the even of the tournament, if you ask me again, my answer will be somewhat similar, with the only exceptions are that I would take out Michigan St. and add Duke and Texas.\u00a0 I would probably change the order to (in my opinion today):\u00a0 UCLA, North Carolina, Kansas, Memphis, Georgetown, Tennessee, Texas, Louisville and Duke.\u00a0 I am not saying this to say how great my predictions were because I did not really go out on a limb with anyone, except Michigan St. (who didn’t pan out) and maybe Tennessee (though it didn’t take long for everyone to catch on).\u00a0 The interesting thing about the fact that the two lists are so similar is that I cannot remember a year that has panned out, for the most part, pretty much exactly as most people would have envisioned.\u00a0 There are no surprise great teams.\u00a0 There are no pre-season top 10’s that missed the tournament.\u00a0 Things kind of held to how everyone thought they would.\u00a0 I was just saying the other day that I cannot recall another college basketball season where if you had asked me every day from October to March who the best team was, I would have answered with the exact same thing, every day.\u00a0 Maybe that is just my blind faith in this UCLA team, but it is still odd that I never questioned it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Way back in November, I wrote a piece outlining the eight teams that I thought had a chance to win the championship.\u00a0 They were (in a relative order):\u00a0 UCLA (the favorite), Tennessee, Memphis, North Carolina, Kansas, Georgetown, Louisville and Michigan … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[226,40],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-hoops","tag-2008-ncaa-tournament","tag-ucla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}