{"id":7321,"date":"2018-03-17T14:58:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T18:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/03\/17\/the-biggest-upset-yet\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:06:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:06:15","slug":"the-biggest-upset-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-biggest-upset-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"The biggest upset yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday night, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County defeated Virginia in the NCAA tournament, becoming the first No. 16 seed to defeat a No. 1 in the tournament\u2019s history. In an article in <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/17\/sports\/virginia-upset.html\">The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> on Saturday, writer Marc Tracy explained how such a shocking upset could happen. His article included a reference to the work of three Furman mathematics professors\u2014John Harris, Liz Bouzarth and Kevin Hutson\u2014who have studied NCAA tournament upsets. The bottom line? Virginia plays slow, and the fewer possessions a stronger team has in a game, the fewer chances that team has to show its superiority. \u201cIt\u2019s the reason,\u201d Harris said, \u201cwhy you don\u2019t play the World Series in one game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday night, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County defeated Virginia in the NCAA tournament, becoming the first No. 16 seed to defeat a No. 1 in the tournament\u2019s history. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":7322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-mathematics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321","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\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}