{"id":36769,"date":"2025-03-22T22:55:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T22:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/22\/arkansas-upset-second-seeded-st-johns-to-reach-sweet-16-in-march-madness-stunner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T22:55:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T22:55:45","slug":"arkansas-upset-second-seeded-st-johns-to-reach-sweet-16-in-march-madness-stunner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/22\/arkansas-upset-second-seeded-st-johns-to-reach-sweet-16-in-march-madness-stunner\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkansas upset second-seeded St John\u2019s to reach Sweet 16 in March Madness stunner"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>No 10 Arkansas beat No 2 St John\u2019s 75-66 in second round<\/li>\n<li>Purdue end McNeese\u2019s run 76-62 to get back to Sweet 16<\/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>John Calipari is heading to the Sweet 16 for the 16th time, guiding the Arkansas Razorbacks past nemesis Rick Pitino and second-seeded St John\u2019s 75-66 on Saturday to bring his fourth school to the NCAA Tournament\u2019s second week.<\/p>\n<p>Billy Richmond III scored 16 points and Karter Knox had 15 for the 10th-seeded Razorbacks, who sent Kansas and their Hall of Fame coach Bill Self home from the \u201cRegion of Coaches\u201d in the first round.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/22\/ncaa-tournament-saturday-results\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No 10 Arkansas beat No 2 St John\u2019s 75-66 in second round Purdue end McNeese\u2019s run 76-62 to get back to Sweet 16 Cheat sheet: highlights and how to win your bracket John Calipari is heading to the Sweet 16 for the 16th time, guiding the Arkansas Razorbacks past nemesis Rick Pitino and second-seeded St &#8230; <a title=\"Arkansas upset second-seeded St John\u2019s to reach Sweet 16 in March Madness stunner\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/22\/arkansas-upset-second-seeded-st-johns-to-reach-sweet-16-in-march-madness-stunner\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Arkansas upset second-seeded St John\u2019s to reach Sweet 16 in March Madness stunner\">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-36769","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\/36769","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=36769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}