{"id":23664,"date":"2023-03-13T16:59:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T20:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=23664"},"modified":"2023-03-13T17:09:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T21:09:28","slug":"dins-favored-for-an-upset-win-the-athletic-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/dins-favored-for-an-upset-win-the-athletic-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Dins favored for an upset win, The Athletic reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Furman Paladins are the top favorite to beat a highly ranked first-round opponent, according to bracket analysis reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/4301211\/2023\/03\/12\/march-madness-upsets-bracket-breakers-top-10\/\">The Athletic<\/a> (subscription required). The team has a 39.3 percent chance of beating the University of Virginia Cavaliers on Thursday in Orlando, the full opening day of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The Athletic also praised Furman math professors John Harris, Liz Bouzarth and Kevin Hutson, who provided the mathematical model The Athletic analysis is based on. But Furman&#8217;s math connections in no way influenced Furman&#8217;s odds; the statistics speak for themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data show that the Paladins have a 39.3 percent chance of beating the University of Virginia in the NCAA tournament, the highest odds among underdog teams. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":22560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,6,1887],"tags":[220,1927,1939],"class_list":["post-23664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-in-the-news","category-the-athletic","tag-athletics","tag-mens-basketball","tag-ncaa-mens-basketball-tournament"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23664","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\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}