{"id":36617,"date":"2025-03-21T02:21:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T02:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/tiny-mcneese-and-viral-manager-stun-clemson-in-first-march-madness-upset\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T02:21:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T02:21:50","slug":"tiny-mcneese-and-viral-manager-stun-clemson-in-first-march-madness-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/tiny-mcneese-and-viral-manager-stun-clemson-in-first-march-madness-upset\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny McNeese and viral manager stun Clemson in first March Madness upset"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>No 12 McNeese hold off No 5 seed Clemson in win<\/li>\n<li>No 4 Purdue survive No 13 High Point\u2019s upset bid<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/20\/2025-march-madness-sheet-ncaa-tournament-highlights-and-how-to-win-your-bracket\">Cheat sheet: highlights and how to win your bracket<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>McNeese coach Will Wade and his boombox-toting manager gave March Madness its first bracket buster.<\/p>\n<p>The 12th-seeded Cowboys used a stifling first half to open a 24-point lead, and then held off late-charging No 5 seed Clemson for the program\u2019s first NCAA Tournament victory, a 69-67 win in the opening round of the East Region on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/20\/mcneese-manager-ncaa-tournament-upset-scores\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No 12 McNeese hold off No 5 seed Clemson in win No 4 Purdue survive No 13 High Point\u2019s upset bid Cheat sheet: highlights and how to win your bracket McNeese coach Will Wade and his boombox-toting manager gave March Madness its first bracket buster. The 12th-seeded Cowboys used a stifling first half to open &#8230; <a title=\"Tiny McNeese and viral manager stun Clemson in first March Madness upset\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/tiny-mcneese-and-viral-manager-stun-clemson-in-first-march-madness-upset\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tiny McNeese and viral manager stun Clemson in first March Madness upset\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}