{"id":37375,"date":"2025-03-30T05:04:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T05:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/march-madness-top-seeds-duke-and-florida-move-on-to-mens-final-four\/"},"modified":"2025-03-30T05:04:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T05:04:46","slug":"march-madness-top-seeds-duke-and-florida-move-on-to-mens-final-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/march-madness-top-seeds-duke-and-florida-move-on-to-mens-final-four\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness: top seeds Duke and Florida move on to men\u2019s Final Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Blue Devils beat Alabama 85-65 to reach 18th Final Four<\/li>\n<li>Gators rally past Texas Tech 84-79 in Elite Eight matchup<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duke\u2019s stream of long, tall NBA-ready standouts smothered Alabama and papered over Cooper Flagg\u2019s rough shooting night to lift the Blue Devils to the program\u2019s 18th Final Four with an 85-65 victory Saturday night in the NCAA Tournament\u2019s East Region final.<\/p>\n<p>Flagg made only 6 of 16 shots, including a brick that got stuck in the flange of the rim, but still finished with 16 points. Kon Knueppel, another potential lottery pick, led the Blue Devils with 21 points.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/30\/duke-florida-elite-eight-game-reports\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Devils beat Alabama 85-65 to reach 18th Final Four Gators rally past Texas Tech 84-79 in Elite Eight matchup Duke\u2019s stream of long, tall NBA-ready standouts smothered Alabama and papered over Cooper Flagg\u2019s rough shooting night to lift the Blue Devils to the program\u2019s 18th Final Four with an 85-65 victory Saturday night in &#8230; <a title=\"March Madness: top seeds Duke and Florida move on to men\u2019s Final Four\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/march-madness-top-seeds-duke-and-florida-move-on-to-mens-final-four\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about March Madness: top seeds Duke and Florida move on to men\u2019s Final Four\">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-37375","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\/37375","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=37375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}