{"id":810,"date":"2005-03-17T14:49:58","date_gmt":"2005-03-17T20:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/seceding-from-the-tournament\/"},"modified":"2005-03-17T14:49:58","modified_gmt":"2005-03-17T20:49:58","slug":"seceding-from-the-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/seceding-from-the-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"SECeding from the tournament?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first set of games are done, and the two SEC entries involved did not play well. Alabama could not dig itself out of a huge first half hole and fell to the 12 seed Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Kentucky struggled with the 15 seed Eastern Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>In the wacky world of college hoops, this one game vaults UWM&#8217;s Bruce Pearl to near the top of the list of hot coaching prospects this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma pulled away from a dog-tired Niagara team, but Juan Mendez has the best individual performace so far, finishing with 22 and 16, though he did shoot 6 of 21 from the floor and 9 of 10 on FTs, for a lousy .86 in the almighty <a href=\"http:\/\/bigtenwonk.blogspot.com\/2004\/12\/no-big-dance-for-buckeyes-ohio-state.html\">PPWS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first set of games are done, and the two SEC entries involved did not play well. Alabama could not dig itself out of a huge first half hole and fell to the 12 seed Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Kentucky struggled with the 15 seed Eastern Kentucky. In the wacky world of college hoops, this one game [&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\/810"}],"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=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}