{"id":23643,"date":"2023-03-13T09:22:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T13:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=23643"},"modified":"2023-03-13T13:24:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T17:24:29","slug":"the-ncaa-mens-academic-bracket-2023-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-ncaa-mens-academic-bracket-2023-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"In the NCAA Men\u2019s Academic Bracket, Dins Win!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23644 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2023\/03\/Final-Four-2023-e1678713297745.jpg\" alt=\"Final Four logo\" width=\"220\" height=\"250\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 220px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 220\/250;\" \/>Since 2006, the folks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2023\/03\/13\/2023-mens-ncaa-tournament-results-if-academics-ruled#.ZA8MlZDLEiw.link\">Inside Higher Education<\/a> have used the NCAA Men&#8217;s Basketball Tournament as an opportunity to highlight academic achievement among teams in the bracket. In the 2023 edition of its Academic Performance Tournament, IHE names Furman University as the eventual winner in Houston. Go Dins!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who would win the NCAA men\u2019s basketball tournament if academic performance trumped athletic skill? Hear from the people at Inside Higher Education who carry on a tradition of prognostication that began in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":23659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,24,6,1935],"tags":[1936,765],"class_list":["post-23643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-athletics","category-in-the-news","category-inside-higher-ed","tag-graduation-rate","tag-ncaa-tournament"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23643","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=23643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}