{"id":69652,"date":"2026-03-21T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/march-madness-top-seed-michigan-power-past-saint-louis-into-sweet-16\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T16:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:00:14","slug":"march-madness-top-seed-michigan-power-past-saint-louis-into-sweet-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/march-madness-top-seed-michigan-power-past-saint-louis-into-sweet-16\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness: top seed Michigan power past Saint Louis into Sweet 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Lendeborg scores 25, caps win with dunk<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Wolverines match program record with 33rd win<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Michigan clamp down on Billikens\u2019 shooting<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yaxel Lendeborg punctuated his 25-point outing with a massive dunk in transition, and the Midwest Region\u2019s top-seeded Michigan advanced to the Sweet 16 with a 95-72 victory over Saint Louis in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Morez Johnson Jr had 15 and eight rebounds for Michigan (33-3), who matched a program record for victories set during their seventh and most recent Final Four appearance in 2018.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/21\/ncaa-tournament-first-round-upsets-scores-recaps\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lendeborg scores 25, caps win with dunk Wolverines match program record with 33rd win Michigan clamp down on Billikens\u2019 shooting Yaxel Lendeborg punctuated his 25-point outing with a massive dunk in transition, and the Midwest Region\u2019s top-seeded Michigan advanced to the Sweet 16 with a 95-72 victory over Saint Louis in the second round of &#8230; <a title=\"March Madness: top seed Michigan power past Saint Louis into Sweet 16\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/march-madness-top-seed-michigan-power-past-saint-louis-into-sweet-16\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about March Madness: top seed Michigan power past Saint Louis into Sweet 16\">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-69652","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\/69652","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=69652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}