{"id":36740,"date":"2025-03-19T14:26:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T18:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=36740"},"modified":"2025-03-21T19:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T23:28:15","slug":"local-story-about-math-and-march-madness-scores-nationwide-news-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/local-story-about-math-and-march-madness-scores-nationwide-news-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Local story about math and March Madness scores nationwide news coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple TV news outlets ran a story about how math professors Kevin Hutson, Liz Bouzarth and John Harris are using modeling and analytics to predict March Madness upsets. <a href=\"https:\/\/insight.tveyes.com\/public\/media-center\/4991e0cd-5f52-4bd1-9a6c-16cf6945b050\/55a5ab52-e860-452d-9004-06c4d3349dfa\">WYFF News 4<\/a> interviewed Hutson, who said the models lay out probabilities for upsets for lower seeded teams.<\/p>\n<p>NBC News Now, the online version of NBC News, interviewed Hutson live on its morning show Friday, March 21. You can see him starting at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i-Vqsvjql1Q\">46:30 mark of this video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Local stations around the country also aired the WYFF story, including <a href=\"https:\/\/insight.tveyes.com\/public\/media-center\/4991e0cd-5f52-4bd1-9a6c-16cf6945b050\/585a01d0-065e-4ffb-a29d-84e8dfff230a\">NBC Chicago<\/a> and affiliates in Tampa Bay, Florida; Wichita Falls, Texas; Madison, Wisconsin; Austin, Texas; Wilmington, North Carolina; Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; Little Rock, Arkansas; Shreveport, Louisiana; Rochester, New York; St. Louis, Missouri; Champaign, Illinois; Great Falls, Montana; Portland, Maine; Charlotte, North Carolina; Bangor, Maine; Lexington, Kentucky; Lincoln, Nebraska; North Platte, Nebraska; Clarksburg, West Virginia; Terre Haute, Indiana; Tri-Cities, Tennessee; Spokane, Washington; Minot, North Dakota; Savannah, Georgia; Greensboro, North Carolina; Sacramento, California; and South Bend, Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>Other networks including CBS in Dallas, ABC stations in Peoria, Illinois, and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and FOX in Wilmington, North Carolina, also picked up the story.<\/p>\n<p>You can also read this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/predicting-march-madness-is-a-numbers-game\/\">Furman News<\/a> story for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local NBC station WYFF News 4 came to campus to speak with one of the architects behind mathematical models that predict March Madness upsets. The story ignited a flurry of coverage across the nation.<\/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":[3,24,101,6,50,3309,120],"tags":[3310,1373,764],"class_list":["post-36740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-data-analytics","category-in-the-news","category-mathematics","category-nbc-news-chicago","category-wyff-tv","tag-bracketology","tag-march-madness","tag-ncaa-basketball"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36740","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=36740"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36789,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36740\/revisions\/36789"}],"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=36740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}