{"id":23175,"date":"2023-02-17T12:10:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T17:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=23175"},"modified":"2023-02-20T13:07:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T18:07:28","slug":"bracket-breakers-2023-taking-an-early-look-at-the-teams-most-likely-to-be-cinderella-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/bracket-breakers-2023-taking-an-early-look-at-the-teams-most-likely-to-be-cinderella-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Bracket Breakers 2023: Taking an early look at the teams most likely to be Cinderella in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Furman University Department of Mathematics is again in the spotlight as March Madness approaches. <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/4201572\/2023\/02\/15\/bracket-breakers-2023-early-cinderella\/\">The Athletic<\/a> editors rely on Furman University mathematics professors Liz Bouzarth, John Harris and Kevin Hutson and the statistical model they helped develop to predict which NCAA men&#8217;s basketball teams may fall and which ones might emerge as Cinderella stories in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>A free subscription to The New York Times is required to view the full article in The Athletic. Create NYT account with your email, choose The Athletic, and then search &#8220;Bracket Breakers.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authors of ESPN&#8217;s &#8220;Giant Killers&#8221; series developed a new and improved statistical model for predicting NCAA Tournament outcomes. The Athletic leans heavily on the expertise of the Furman Mathematics Department and professors Bouzarth, Harris and Hutson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":23189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,6,50,1887],"tags":[1888,1373,764,765,1889],"class_list":["post-23175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-mathematics","category-the-athletic","tag-bracket-busters","tag-march-madness","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-slingshot"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23175","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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}