{"id":30627,"date":"2024-03-18T10:56:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T14:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=30627"},"modified":"2024-03-18T13:50:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T17:50:36","slug":"furman-math-professors-offer-march-madness-expertise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-math-professors-offer-march-madness-expertise\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman math professors offer March Madness expertise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s bracket season, and per tradition, Furman University mathematics professors Liz Bouzarth, John Harris and Kevin Hutson have been busy helping develop a March Madness model, Slingshot, that predicts upsets in the NCAA tournament. An article in <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/5339769\/2024\/03\/14\/ncaa-tournament-upsets-explained\/?access_token=12300253\">The Athletic<\/a> by Peter Keating and Jordan Brenner explains why style of play, chaos, &#8220;cluster collisions&#8221; and more impact the ever-evolving model and tourney outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>In other pieces appearing in The Athletic, Keating and Brenner, aka Bracket Busters, pick the <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/5348651\/2024\/03\/17\/march-madness-upsets-picks-bracket-breakers-top-10\/\">10 most likely first-round upsets in the men&#8217;s tourney<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/5350054\/2024\/03\/18\/womens-march-madness-upsets-picks-bracket-breakers-top-10\/\">10 most likely first-round &#8220;stunners&#8221; in the women&#8217;s tournament<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A subscription to The Athletic or The New York Times is required to view the content. Furman ID holders may access the articles through databases located at Furman University Libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liz Bouzarth, John Harris and Kevin Hutson lend their math chops to The Athletic&#8217;s Peter Keating and Jordan Brenner to craft a model that predicts March Madness upsets.<\/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":[6,50,1887],"tags":[1373,381,2641,765,2640],"class_list":["post-30627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-mathematics","category-the-athletic","tag-march-madness","tag-mathematical-modeling","tag-ncaa-mens-basketball","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-ncaa-womens-basketball"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30627","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=30627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30627\/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=30627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}