{"id":69028,"date":"2026-03-15T20:01:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/march-madness-duke-named-top-mens-seed-as-miami-ohio-squeak-in-as-no-11\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T20:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:01:47","slug":"march-madness-duke-named-top-mens-seed-as-miami-ohio-squeak-in-as-no-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/march-madness-duke-named-top-mens-seed-as-miami-ohio-squeak-in-as-no-11\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness: Duke named top men\u2019s seed as Miami (Ohio) squeak in as No 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Arizona, Michigan and Florida also No 1 seeds<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>31-1 RedHawks must play in First Four game<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duke received the top overall men\u2019s seed for March Madness on Sunday, followed by Arizona, Michigan and Florida, each of whom would love a repeat of last season when all four No 1s made it to the Final Four.<\/p>\n<p>The top line was the most predictable thing to come out of Selection Sunday, with Michigan\u2019s drop of one spot to the overall No 3 the result of the Wolverines\u2019 loss to Purdue moments before the brackets were revealed, according to tournament selection chair Keith Gill.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/15\/march-madness-duke-named-top-mens-seed-as-miami-ohio-squeak-in-as-no-11\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona, Michigan and Florida also No 1 seeds 31-1 RedHawks must play in First Four game Duke received the top overall men\u2019s seed for March Madness on Sunday, followed by Arizona, Michigan and Florida, each of whom would love a repeat of last season when all four No 1s made it to the Final Four. &#8230; <a title=\"March Madness: Duke named top men\u2019s seed as Miami (Ohio) squeak in as No 11\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/march-madness-duke-named-top-mens-seed-as-miami-ohio-squeak-in-as-no-11\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about March Madness: Duke named top men\u2019s seed as Miami (Ohio) squeak in as No 11\">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-69028","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\/69028","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=69028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}