{"id":226,"date":"2005-03-05T18:33:40","date_gmt":"2005-03-05T23:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=226"},"modified":"2005-03-05T18:33:40","modified_gmt":"2005-03-05T23:33:40","slug":"just-about-ready-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2005\/03\/05\/just-about-ready-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"just about ready to go&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230;one more game, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshmeans.com\/\" title=\"here there be gopher\">gopher<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/fightingillini.collegesports.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/ill-m-baskbl-body.html\">boys<\/a> will kick off <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stlloc.org\/\">March Madness<\/a> as the number one seed. A win tomorrow will give them an undefeated regular season, as well as a probable unanimous #1 seed in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>No team has has finished the season undefeated and won the NCAA tournament since the <a href=\"http:\/\/iuhoosiers.com\/mensbasketball\/history\/ncaasuccess\/mbktr-ncaa1976.html\">1976 Indiana squad<\/a>. Here&#8217;s hoping the Illini break that streak this year (and I don&#8217;t care what the bookies say, UNC aint gonna make it).<\/p>\n<p>Go Illini!<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> In a textbook definition of the word &#8220;choke&#8221; as it applies to blowing a game, the Illini failed to score a single point in the last 3:23 of the second half and lost 65-64 to Ohio State. They&#8217;ll still be seeded number one, but Dee Brown was clearly thrown off his game by the crowd, and it makes you worry a little bit about how he&#8217;ll perform when the pressure is <em>really<\/em> on during single elimination play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;one more game, and gopher&#8216;s boys will kick off March Madness as the number one seed. A win tomorrow will give them an undefeated regular season, as well as a probable unanimous #1 seed in the tournament. No team has has finished the season undefeated and won the NCAA tournament since the 1976 Indiana squad. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}