{"id":15134,"date":"2013-04-10T05:30:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T09:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=15134"},"modified":"2013-04-09T22:31:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T02:31:10","slug":"louisville-wins-as-do-some-cranachers-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2013\/04\/louisville-wins-as-do-some-cranachers-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisville wins, as do some Cranachers (sort of)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Louisville beat Michigan to win the NCAA basketball championship.<\/p>\n<p>In our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2013\/03\/2013-ncaa-tournament\/#comments\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Cranach contest<\/a>, no one picked the winner, but quite a\u00a0 few picked Louisville to be in the final two: Dr. Fundystan, Aletheist, A. MacPhee, and EGK.\u00a0 Dennis gets another imaginary prize for coming the closest to predicting the little school that comes out of nowhere to get into the Final Four as happens nearly every year:\u00a0 namely, Wichita State.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s pretty good prognosticating, another tribute to the quality of my readers on this blog.<\/p>\n<p>For details of the game:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/B\/BKC_NCAA_CHAMPIONSHIP?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2013-04-08-23-47-43\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">News from The Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisville beat Michigan to win the NCAA basketball championship. In our Cranach contest, no one picked the winner, but quite a\u00a0 few picked Louisville to be in the final two: Dr. Fundystan, Aletheist, A. MacPhee, and EGK.\u00a0 Dennis gets another imaginary prize for coming the closest to predicting the little school that comes out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,43],"tags":[1548],"class_list":["post-15134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-sports","tag-ncaa-basketball-tournament"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Louisville wins, as do some Cranachers (sort of)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Louisville beat Michigan to win the NCAA basketball championship. 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