{"id":717466,"date":"2019-02-15T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=717466"},"modified":"2019-02-15T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T14:49:00","slug":"tri-partisan-close-games-or-blowouts-which-bode-better-for-deep-ncaa-tournament-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=717466","title":{"rendered":"Tri-Partisan: Close games or blowouts? Which bode better for deep NCAA Tournament run?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/close-games-or-blowouts-which-bode-better-for-deep-ncaa-tournament-run\/18194496\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/basketball\/college_basketball\/2019\/02\/09\/18181339\/media_68e1d559f9534428bc63d7e16ecadf81-DMID1-5htpp9hic-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Miami_North_Carolina_Basketball_46135\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Based strictly on a comparison of 2017 and 2018 tourney results, it doesn&#8217;t appear that playing close games in the regular season has any significant correlation to how far the Tar Heels will advance in the postseason. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/close-games-or-blowouts-which-bode-better-for-deep-ncaa-tournament-run\/18194496\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/close-games-or-blowouts-which-bode-better-for-deep-ncaa-tournament-run\/18194496\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Tri-Partisan: Close games or blowouts? Which bode better for deep NCAA Tournament run?\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based strictly on a comparison of 2017 and 2018 tourney results, it doesn&#8217;t appear that playing close games in the regular season has any significant&#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-717466","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\/717466","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=717466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=717466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=717466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=717466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}