{"id":37441,"date":"2025-03-31T00:27:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T00:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/ncaa-tournament-houston-and-auburn-ensure-all-no-1-seeds-make-mens-final-four\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T00:27:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T00:27:27","slug":"ncaa-tournament-houston-and-auburn-ensure-all-no-1-seeds-make-mens-final-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/ncaa-tournament-houston-and-auburn-ensure-all-no-1-seeds-make-mens-final-four\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Tournament: Houston and Auburn ensure all No 1 seeds make men\u2019s Final Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Auburn to play Florida; Houston will face Duke<\/li>\n<li>First all-No 1 seed Final Four since 2008<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Johni Broome had 25 points and 14 rebounds, and Auburn took command with 17 unanswered points in the first half to beat Michigan State 70-64 on Sunday and complete a sweep of No 1 seeds advancing to the Final Four.<\/p>\n<p>Auburn earned their second Final Four trip, while Michigan State fell short in their bid to send coach Tom Izzo to his ninth national semi-final. Auburn\u2019s only previous Final Four appearance came in 2019, also under coach Bruce Pearl.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/30\/ncaa-tournament-houston-and-auburn-ensure-all-no-1-seeds-make-final-four\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auburn to play Florida; Houston will face Duke First all-No 1 seed Final Four since 2008 Johni Broome had 25 points and 14 rebounds, and Auburn took command with 17 unanswered points in the first half to beat Michigan State 70-64 on Sunday and complete a sweep of No 1 seeds advancing to the Final &#8230; <a title=\"NCAA Tournament: Houston and Auburn ensure all No 1 seeds make men\u2019s Final Four\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/ncaa-tournament-houston-and-auburn-ensure-all-no-1-seeds-make-mens-final-four\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NCAA Tournament: Houston and Auburn ensure all No 1 seeds make 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-37441","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\/37441","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=37441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}