{"id":2095,"date":"2014-03-20T19:01:31","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T23:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2014\/03\/20\/calculating-the-madness-of-march\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:27:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:27:08","slug":"calculating-the-madness-of-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/calculating-the-madness-of-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Calculating the madness of March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/march-madness.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10532 lazyload\" alt=\"march-madness\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/march-madness.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"149\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 225px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 225\/149;\" \/><\/a>This week, millions of people have filled out NCAA Tournament brackets in hopes of winning anything from a billion bucks courtesy of Warren Buffett to office bragging rights. But very few likely did as much research as Furman math professors Liz Bouzarth, John Harris and Kevin Hutson, who crunched college basketball numbers this season as part of an ESPN project called \u201cGiant Killers.\u201d\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/article\/20140320\/SPORTS0103\/303200014\/Furman-math-professors-offer-bracket-help\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/b> wrote about the March Madness research done by the professors,\u00a0and which teams the professors think may\u2014and may not\u2014be hanging around for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, millions of people have filled out NCAA Tournament brackets in hopes of winning anything from a billion bucks courtesy of Warren Buffett to office bragging rights. But very few likely did as much research as Furman math professors Liz Bouzarth, John Harris and Kevin Hutson, who crunched college basketball numbers this season as part of an ESPN project called \u201cGiant Killers.\u201d\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/article\/20140320\/SPORTS0103\/303200014\/Furman-math-professors-offer-bracket-help\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/b> wrote about the March Madness research done by the professors,\u00a0and which teams the professors think may\u2014and may not\u2014be hanging around for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":12969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}