{"id":60992,"date":"2026-05-07T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/07\/like-it-or-not-march-madness-is-expanding-to-76-teams-starting-next-season-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:01:00","slug":"like-it-or-not-march-madness-is-expanding-to-76-teams-starting-next-season-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/07\/like-it-or-not-march-madness-is-expanding-to-76-teams-starting-next-season-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Like it or not, March Madness is expanding to 76 teams, starting next season &#8211; USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi2gFBVV95cUxQdU03a0xJczVBYTdaUC0wTHRGOEJxTnkxSGVjVUc0dFQ1d0c2eE0zOC03MU80aEtVNkxwYjVzdDk4STlGZDh0ZVV4UUd5elZkcU1rY0RTemkzZ3JIZFQ0UjBrSEdDU1pEXzVmSlRmLXBWOUtManY4X1ZsRmhOUUpNMHFkM1pMVW1MZnE2US1xTThkWmIySnBtd1daTC1XZURzTUJ2Z2EtMlVzVG45eUgtM3pvR3JQdi04N0drS0JqVElRU1VxRWxSU2ZLSjg5VFNWamxLYnpINjIwZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Like it or not, March Madness is expanding to 76 teams, starting next season<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">USA Today<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like it or not, March Madness is expanding to 76 teams, starting next season&nbsp;&nbsp;USA Today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}