{"id":796,"date":"2005-04-02T04:00:01","date_gmt":"2005-04-02T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/a-one-and-a-two\/"},"modified":"2005-04-02T04:00:01","modified_gmt":"2005-04-02T10:00:01","slug":"a-one-and-a-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/a-one-and-a-two\/","title":{"rendered":"A One and A Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It hasn&#8217;t happened yet, but it&#8217;s a real possibility. The teams ranked one and two before the tournament are a game away from meeting in the championship game. It doesn&#8217;t happen very often. It happens even less often than I thought. The last time was a long, long time ago.<\/p>\n<p>Here are all of the instances since the AP poll began in the &#8217;49 season that #1 and #2 have met in the final:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1975 UCLA\/Kentucky<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1965 Michigan\/UCLA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1962 Ohio State\/Cincinnati<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1961 Ohio State\/Cincinnati<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1957 UNC\/Kansas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1949 Kentucky\/Oklahoma State<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It hasn&#8217;t happened yet, but it&#8217;s a real possibility. The teams ranked one and two before the tournament are a game away from meeting in the championship game. It doesn&#8217;t happen very often. It happens even less often than I thought. The last time was a long, long time ago. Here are all of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}