{"id":1892253,"date":"2026-07-13T18:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892253"},"modified":"2026-07-14T02:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:06:18","slug":"a-major-bracket-shake-up-ncaa-womens-tournament-to-seed-the-top-16-by-true-ranking-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892253","title":{"rendered":"A major bracket shake-up: NCAA women&#8217;s tournament to seed the top 16 by true ranking next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning with next year\u2019s NCAA women&#8217;s basketball tournament, the top 16 teams will be placed in the bracket in their true ranking regardless of conference affiliation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/75345-a-major-bracket-shake-up-ncaa-womens-tournament-to-seed-the-top-16-by-true-ranking-next-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning with next year\u2019s NCAA women&#8217;s basketball tournament, the top 16 teams will be placed in the bracket in their true ranking regardless of conference affiliation&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1892254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892253","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892255,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892253\/revisions\/1892255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}