{"id":30,"date":"2005-04-15T01:56:45","date_gmt":"2005-04-15T06:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2005-04-15T01:58:09","modified_gmt":"2005-04-15T06:58:09","slug":"march-madness-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/2005\/04\/march-madness-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March Madness rant. Look, will all of you complaining about the RPI just cut it out? Obviously, the RPI doesn&#8217;t rule the NCAA Selection committee. Proof? How about TCU? 21-12 record, RPI of 32, which puts them ahead of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">ELEVEN<\/span> other at-large bids in RPI rank&#8211;so go ahead, tell Tubby Smith (TCU&#8217;s coach) about how the NCAA is tied to the RPI. And all the Georgetown and USC fans better be *really* quiet about the RPI, since there were NINE teams ahead of USC in the RPI that didn&#8217;t get bids and TEN teams ahead of Georgetown (including a team from the Big East with an identical 19-9 record, West Virginia). So yeah, sure, bitch about selection, but don&#8217;t bitch about the use of the RPI&#8211;a team&#8217;s RPI is clearly not as important as everyone seems to think.<\/p>\n<p>(original date: 1997.03.10)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March Madness rant. Look, will all of you complaining about the RPI just cut it out? Obviously, the RPI doesn&#8217;t rule the NCAA Selection committee. Proof? How about TCU? 21-12 record, RPI of 32, which puts them ahead of ELEVEN other at-large bids in RPI rank&#8211;so go ahead, tell Tubby Smith (TCU&#8217;s coach) about how &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/2005\/04\/march-madness-rant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">March Madness rant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}