{"id":9822,"date":"2022-03-21T15:12:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T15:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2022\/03\/21\/ncaa-tournament-brackets-strength-in-numbers\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:46:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:46:59","slug":"ncaa-tournament-brackets-strength-in-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/ncaa-tournament-brackets-strength-in-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Tournament brackets: Strength in numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"-3\">F<\/span><span id=\"-1\">or the past nine years, three F<\/span><span id=\"0\">urman University mathematics professors, Liz B<\/span><span id=\"7\">ouzarth, John Harris and Kevin H<\/span><span id=\"9\">utson, have built a reputation as national <\/span><span id=\"10\">experts on predicting upsets in <\/span><span id=\"11\">the NCAA Men&#8217;s Basketball Tournament. T<\/span><span id=\"12\">hey work with sports writers to\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"12\">make predictions based on<\/span><span id=\"13\"> stats like strength <\/span><span id=\"14\">of schedule, points scored, pace\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"16\">of play and more. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=2725&amp;DateTime=3%2F17%2F2022+4%3A34%3A04+PM&amp;Term=Furman&amp;PlayClip=TRUE\">WYFF News 4<\/a><\/strong> caught up with Hutson, who offered some insight into the model.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past nine years, three Furman University mathematics professors, Liz Bouzarth, John Harris and Kevin Hutson, have built a reputation as national experts on predicting upsets in the NCAA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,50],"tags":[1372,1373,765],"class_list":["post-9822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-mathematics","tag-college-basketball","tag-march-madness","tag-ncaa-tournament"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9822","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=9822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}