{"id":283,"date":"2006-03-23T21:12:28","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T05:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songoose.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:37:58","slug":"texas-wins-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"Texas Wins it All?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been quite critical of Texas and their inconsistency, but I now think about other sweet 16 close calls &#8212; UNC over &#8216;Nova in &#8217;05 on a <em>very<\/em> dubious travel, Syracuse over Auburn by 1 in &#8217;03&#8230; not to mention Maryland&#8217;s buzzer-beater against UNCW (in round one) the year they won it.<\/p>\n<p>Almost every champion has one super close call&#8230; could this be it for the &#8217;06 winner?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been quite critical of Texas and their inconsistency, but I now think about other sweet 16 close calls &#8212; UNC over &#8216;Nova in &#8217;05 on a very dubious travel, Syracuse over Auburn by 1 in &#8217;03&#8230; not to mention Maryland&#8217;s buzzer-beater against UNCW (in round one) the year they won it. Almost every champion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}