{"id":4922,"date":"2011-03-28T15:11:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T19:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4922"},"modified":"2011-03-28T15:11:29","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T19:11:29","slug":"kansas-loss-finishes-president-obama%e2%80%99s-brackett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4922","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Loss Finishes President Obama\u2019s Brackett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; <strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong> has come up empty in the Final Four.<\/p>\n<p>Like millions of other fans around the country, <strong>Obama<\/strong> lost his last Final Four team &#8212; and his national champion &#8212; when top-seeded Kansas was stunned by Virginia Commonwealth in the Southwest Regional final Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Obama<\/strong> picked all four No. 1 seeds to reach the Final Four in Houston, but Pittsburgh, Ohio State, Duke and Kansas have all been eliminated during a wild NCAA tournament filled with upsets.<\/p>\n<p>No. 8 seed Butler will play 11th-seeded VCU in one national semifinal Saturday. No. 3 seed Connecticut faces fourth-seeded Kentucky in the other one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Obama<\/strong> filled out a bracket for ESPN for the third straight year. He is in the 94th percentile out of 5.9 million brackets submitted on ESPN.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; President Barack Obama has come up empty in the Final Four. Like millions of other fans around the country, Obama lost his last Final Four team &#8212; and his national champion &#8212; when top-seeded Kansas was stunned by Virginia Commonwealth in the Southwest Regional final Sunday. Obama picked all four No. 1 seeds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}