{"id":3811,"date":"2011-04-11T10:51:07","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T16:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=3811"},"modified":"2011-04-11T10:51:07","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T16:51:07","slug":"twis-ncaa-hoops-runs-were-things-of-pure-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/twis-ncaa-hoops-runs-were-things-of-pure-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"T*W*I*S:  NCAA Hoops&#8217; Runs Were Things of Pure Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/UConn-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3814\" title=\"UConn 2\" src=\"\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/UConn-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a>I love a good story.\u00a0 Sure, it may have been more appealing for VCU or Butler to have won the men&#8217;s national NCAA basketball titles this past week, but the fact that they made such Hoosier-like runs to the Final Four showed basketball fans everywhere that betting on college basketball is a dangerous occupation, indeed, and that Cindrella might soon find that glass slipper in the next few years.\u00a0 As the Rams and Bulldogs continued to surprise us at every turn, along\u00a0came Texas A&amp;M and Notre Dame on the women&#8217;s side of the ledger to put as much, if not more, excitement into their version of March Madness.\u00a0 In both tournaments, the UConn Huskies and A&amp;M Aggies fought against long odds, overcame sentimental\u00a0favorites and reached the mountaintop of college basketball with grit, guts and great defense.\u00a0 With all the 1&#8217;s gone, they were left to snap up the spoils, and the hardware.\u00a0 And, man, oh, man, was it fun to watch or what?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love a good story.\u00a0 Sure, it may have been more appealing for VCU or Butler to have won the men&#8217;s national NCAA basketball titles this past week, but the fact that they made such Hoosier-like runs to the Final Four showed basketball fans everywhere that betting on college basketball is a dangerous occupation, indeed, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/twis-ncaa-hoops-runs-were-things-of-pure-beauty\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}