{"id":1078898,"date":"2020-09-09T10:23:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T14:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1078898"},"modified":"2020-09-09T10:23:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T14:23:50","slug":"tom-jernstedt-an-architect-of-march-madness-dies-at-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1078898","title":{"rendered":"Tom Jernstedt, an architect of March Madness, dies at 75"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/tom-jernstedt-an-architect-of-march-madness-dies-at-75\/19276295\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/unc\/2017\/03\/31\/16618005\/1957_a6971e6412494029b8230f6562f3f12d-uid14909927111039-DMID1-5dkwd09ie-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"1957 NCAA Tournament title\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Tom Jernstedt, who helped transform the NCAA men&#8217;s college basketball tournament into the major annual sports attraction known as March Madness, died Saturday outside his home in Tequesta, Florida. He was 75. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/tom-jernstedt-an-architect-of-march-madness-dies-at-75\/19276295\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/tom-jernstedt-an-architect-of-march-madness-dies-at-75\/19276295\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Tom Jernstedt, an architect of March Madness, dies at 75\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Jernstedt, who helped transform the NCAA men&#8217;s college basketball tournament into the major annual sports attraction known as March Madness, died Saturday outside his home&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1078898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1078898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1078898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1078898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}