{"id":36719,"date":"2025-03-22T07:18:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T07:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/22\/missing-madness-ncaa-first-round-bereft-of-buzzer-beaters-and-big-upsets\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T07:18:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T07:18:32","slug":"missing-madness-ncaa-first-round-bereft-of-buzzer-beaters-and-big-upsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/22\/missing-madness-ncaa-first-round-bereft-of-buzzer-beaters-and-big-upsets\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing madness: NCAA first round bereft of buzzer-beaters and big upsets"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Men\u2019s tournament first round has been relatively tame<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/20\/march-madness-2025-predictions-which-of-the-no-1-seeds-are-in-for-a-shock\">March Madness predictions: which No 1 seeds will fall?<\/a><\/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>The calendar says it\u2019s March. Most of the madness has been missing so far.<\/p>\n<p>There certainly have been upsets. Just ask the owners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/21\/march-madness-bracket-percentages-ncaa-tournament\">of the 99.9956% of brackets<\/a> with at least one blemish.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/22\/missing-madness-ncaa-tournament\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men\u2019s tournament first round has been relatively tame March Madness predictions: which No 1 seeds will fall? Cheat sheet: highlights and how to win your bracket The calendar says it\u2019s March. Most of the madness has been missing so far. There certainly have been upsets. Just ask the owners of the 99.9956% of brackets with &#8230; <a title=\"Missing madness: NCAA first round bereft of buzzer-beaters and big upsets\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/22\/missing-madness-ncaa-first-round-bereft-of-buzzer-beaters-and-big-upsets\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Missing madness: NCAA first round bereft of buzzer-beaters and big upsets\">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-36719","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\/36719","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=36719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}