{"id":2453,"date":"2011-03-30T13:22:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T04:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/?p=2453"},"modified":"2011-03-30T13:26:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T04:26:34","slug":"the-stage-is-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/?p=2453","title":{"rendered":"The Stage is Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2454 aligncenter\" title=\"2011 NCAAW Final Four\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Untitled-1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Untitled-1-copy.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Untitled-1-copy-494x302.jpg 494w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">UCONN vs NOTRE DAME | STANFORD vs TEXAS A&amp;M<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Okay, let&#8217;s not discuss that I scored an astounding 1 out of 4 in my picks. That goes without saying that this year&#8217;s Elite Eight has nothing been short of entertaining and surprising, even if it lacks that quintessential Cinderella story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So Vandersloot and the Zags fell to Stanford, right? And that Skylar Diggins and the Fighting Irish upset the Tennessee Lady Vols yesterday. This morning, Maya Moore scored her 3000th point in a 35-point rout of the Duke Blue Devils, and Texas A&amp;M&#8217;s Sydney Carter pushed her team over Brittney Griner&#8217;s 1st-seeded Baylor Bears and that&#8217;s with Danielle Adams struggling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Texas A&amp;M Aggies : 1st Final Four in school history<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Stanford Cardinal : 4th straight Final Four<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Notre Dame Fighting Irish : 1st time since 2001<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Connecticut Huskies : 12th Final Four<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* \u00a0 * \u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">With that said, I&#8217;m pulling for a UCONN &#8211; STANFORD final.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* \u00a0 * \u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The AP All-America Team was <a href=\"http:\/\/rivals.yahoo.com\/ncaa\/womens-basketball\/news?slug=ap-womensall-america\">released<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>FIRST TEAM<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Maya Moore (Connecticut)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Brittney Griner (Baylor)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Jeannette Pohlen (Stanford)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Danielle Adams (Texas A&amp;M)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Jantel Lavender (Ohio State)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>SECOND TEAM<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Danielle Robinson (Oklahoma)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Amber Harris (Xavier)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Courtney Vandersloot (Gonzaga)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Nnemkadi Ogwumike (Stanford)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Jasmine Thomas (Duke)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>THIRD TEAM<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Shekinna Stricklen (Tennessee)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Shenise Johnson (Miami)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Victoria Dunlap (Kentucky)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ta\u2019Shia Phillips (Xavier)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Skylar Diggins (Notre Dame)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCONN vs NOTRE DAME | STANFORD vs TEXAS A&amp;M Okay, let&#8217;s not discuss that I scored an astounding 1 out &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/?p=2453\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[484,119,479,229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2464,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions\/2464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal.kilcher04.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}