{"id":384,"date":"2008-04-08T21:29:21","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T02:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/post-basketball-doldrums\/"},"modified":"2008-06-12T00:23:54","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T05:23:54","slug":"post-basketball-doldrums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/post-basketball-doldrums-384\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Basketball Doldrums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m battling a bit of a basketball hangover after the end of the tournament, so my mind isn&#8217;t really into the sports scene today. I&#8217;ll be back in full force tomorrow, and I have a full slate of baseball content on tap for the next few weeks, but I can&#8217;t let today go by without commenting on a few things that have caught my eye:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I didn&#8217;t watch the game, but I was very impressed to see that Pat Summitt and Tennessee added yet another national championship, and that they did it in impressive fashion by totally overwhelming a Stanford team that hadn&#8217;t lost in months. I don&#8217;t follow the sport much, but I can&#8217;t help but be amazed by what Summitt is putting together &#8211; that&#8217;s eight national championships since 1987. Amazing.<\/li>\n<li>The Tigers dropped to 0-7. They have been outscored 18-2 in their last two. Unbelievable. If you had told me that at this point the Orioles would be the best team in baseball and the Tigers the worst I would have suggested that you check into rehab. It&#8217;s obviously way too early to draw any conclusions, but this is truly bizarre.<\/li>\n<li>Bill Self says that he is looking for &#8216;security&#8217; after winning the title. That&#8217;s code for &#8216;I want three Brinks trucks full of cash or I am going to Oklahoma State&#8217;. It will be very interesting to see how this plays out. Kansas really has no choice but to open up their wallets and dump the contents onto Self&#8217;s laps.<\/li>\n<li>Kevin Love and Darren Collison are going pro. Also the sun came up today and the sky is blue.<\/li>\n<li>LeBron has missed more than one practice with a sore back. Washington and Philly, Cleveland&#8217;s two most likely first round opponents, love to hear that.<\/li>\n<li>Tiger is at even money to win the Masters. Mickelson is at 10\/1, Vijay Singh is at 18\/1, and Geoff Ogilvy is at 20\/1. No other golfers are below 25\/1. There are no words to describe how staggering those odds are. Tiger is a terrible bet at that price, but it is hard to pick anyone but him given how he is playing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m battling a bit of a basketball hangover after the end of the tournament, so my mind isn&#8217;t really into the sports scene today. I&#8217;ll be back in full force tomorrow, and I have a full slate of baseball content on tap for the next few weeks, but I can&#8217;t let today go by without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-handicapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}