{"id":9802,"date":"2022-03-08T14:52:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T14:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2022\/03\/08\/furman-math-professors-help-model-ncaa-bracket-busters\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:46:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:46:45","slug":"furman-math-professors-help-model-ncaa-bracket-busters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-math-professors-help-model-ncaa-bracket-busters\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman math professors help model NCAA Bracket Busters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, math professors Liz Bouzarth, John Harris &#8217;91 and Kevin Hutson have modeled the math that powers the prognostications of college basketball journalists for the NCAA men&#8217;s basketball tournament. <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/3167696\/2022\/03\/07\/2022-bracket-breakers-re-introducing-the-model-that-will-identify-upsets-and-cinderellas-in-the-2022-ncaa-tournament\/\">The Athletic<\/a> says the Paladin trio helped build a &#8220;revamped and improved statistical model&#8221; for picking which Cinderellas will be giant killers. Read <a href=\"https:\/\/news.furman.edu\/2019\/03\/19\/math-professors-unveil-latest-ncaa-tournament-upsets-model\/\">a 2019 story<\/a> about the team&#8217;s math game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, math professors Liz Bouzarth, John Harris &#8217;91 and Kevin Hutson have modeled the math that powers the prognostications of college basketball journalists for the NCAA men&#8217;s basketball tournament. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":9803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,50],"tags":[1363,381,764,765],"class_list":["post-9802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-mathematics","tag-math","tag-mathematical-modeling","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaa-tournament"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9802","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=9802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}