{"id":38031,"date":"2025-04-06T06:57:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T06:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/06\/ncaa-tournament-houstons-epic-comeback-beats-duke-to-set-up-florida-final\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T06:57:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T06:57:22","slug":"ncaa-tournament-houstons-epic-comeback-beats-duke-to-set-up-florida-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/06\/ncaa-tournament-houstons-epic-comeback-beats-duke-to-set-up-florida-final\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Tournament: Houston\u2019s epic comeback beats Duke to set up Florida final"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Gators and Cougars will play for national championship<\/li>\n<li>Houston roar back from 14 points down against Duke<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Houston\u2019s suffocating defense wiped away a 14-point deficit over the final eight minutes and erased Cooper Flagg and Duke\u2019s title hopes on Saturday in a 70-67 stunner over the Blue Devils at the Final Four.<\/p>\n<p>Duke made a grand total of one field goal over the last 10 minutes of this game. The second-to-last attempt was a step-back jumper in the lane by Flagg that J\u2019Wan Roberts disrupted. The last was a desperation heave by Tyrese Proctor that caught nothing at the buzzer.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/06\/ncaa-tournament-final-four-houston-duke-florida-auburn\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gators and Cougars will play for national championship Houston roar back from 14 points down against Duke Houston\u2019s suffocating defense wiped away a 14-point deficit over the final eight minutes and erased Cooper Flagg and Duke\u2019s title hopes on Saturday in a 70-67 stunner over the Blue Devils at the Final Four. Duke made a &#8230; <a title=\"NCAA Tournament: Houston\u2019s epic comeback beats Duke to set up Florida final\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/06\/ncaa-tournament-houstons-epic-comeback-beats-duke-to-set-up-florida-final\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NCAA Tournament: Houston\u2019s epic comeback beats Duke to set up Florida final\">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-38031","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\/38031","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=38031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}