{"id":278,"date":"2011-03-14T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/03\/butler-wins-inside-higher-ed-ncaa-tournament\/"},"modified":"2011-03-14T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T10:54:00","slug":"butler-wins-inside-higher-ed-ncaa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/03\/butler-wins-inside-higher-ed-ncaa-tournament.html","title":{"rendered":"Butler Wins Inside Higher Ed NCAA Tournament"},"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>This is the first time I noticed what <i>Inside Higher Ed<\/i> has apparently been doing for several years: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2011\/03\/14\/the_ncaa_tournament_bracket_based_on_teams_academic_performance\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ranking NCAA teams as though their victory on the court matched their accomplishment in academic courses<\/a>. Butler won!<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/var\/ihe\/storage\/images\/media\/news_images\/2011\/03\/bracket\/4617454-1-eng-US\/bracket_full.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/var\/ihe\/storage\/images\/media\/news_images\/2011\/03\/bracket\/4617454-1-eng-US\/bracket_full.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5027669348165960891?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first time I noticed what Inside Higher Ed has apparently been doing for several years: ranking NCAA teams as though their victory on the court matched their accomplishment in academic courses. 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