{"id":3326,"date":"2011-03-21T08:57:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T13:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/?p=3326"},"modified":"2012-02-03T15:02:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T21:02:53","slug":"ncaa-tournament-round-3-11-vcu-vs-3-purdue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/ncaa-tournament-round-3-11-vcu-vs-3-purdue\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Tournament Round 3: #11 VCU vs. #3 Purdue"},"content":{"rendered":"

To my surprise the NCAA Tournament Round 3 was not scheduled to begin until 6:10 pm. Most first Sundays for the NCAA Tournament are schedule as afternoon affairs, but today was a change to the norm which definitely worked in my favor as my babysitter could not come over until later Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Pre Game Dining<\/span>
\nAs soon as the babysitter arrived, I left the house as Nicole was still working on her dissertation on Northwestern\u2019s campus. I went to Billy Goat Tavern for a pre-game burger and beer.<\/p>\n

Beg, Borrow and Deal<\/span>
\nMost scalpers on the walk from Billy Goat Tavern wanted around face value ($80) for their tickets. I wanted to pay $20 if possible. After walking around the United Center, I had not found a fan that would sell for that low. However, I did find one scalper who offered me a ticket for $40 and would not go lower on price so that is what I paid.<\/p>\n

\"NCAA<\/a><\/p>\n

#11 VCU vs. #3 Purdue<\/span>
\nOn Friday, JaJuan Johnson and E\u2019Twaun Moore dominated St. Peter\u2019s for Purdue. Tonight VCU figured out how to contain both of them as they cruised to a 94-76 victory over the Boilermakers. A shocking win since VCU was a controversial entry into the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To my surprise the NCAA Tournament Round 3 was not scheduled to begin until 6:10 pm. Most first Sundays for the NCAA Tournament are schedule as afternoon affairs, but today was a change to the norm which definitely worked in my favor as my babysitter could not come over until later Sunday afternoon.
\nPre Game Dining
\nAs soon as the babysitter arrived, I left the house as Nicole was still working on her dissertation on Northwestern\u2019s campus. I went to Billy Goat Tavern for a pre-game burger and beer.
\nBeg, Borrow and Deal
\nMost …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[170,166,236,234],"tags":[362],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3329,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions\/3329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}