{"id":2959,"date":"2019-03-27T17:24:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T21:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2019-05-08T14:33:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T18:33:49","slug":"osga-ncaa-tournament-challenge-continues-into-sweet-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/osga-ncaa-tournament-challenge-continues-into-sweet-16\/","title":{"rendered":"OSGA NCAA Tournament Challenge continues into Sweet 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>18th Annual OSGA NCAA Tournament Challenge<\/strong> is entering the second week of competition and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/NCAA-Contest.html?jsxpage=%2Fresults%2Fstandings%2F\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the standings<\/a> are tight, making the cash Grand Prize for this year&#8217;s March Madness contest within almost every player&#8217;s reach. <\/p>\n<p>The round of 32 was historic in the all 16 games were won by the favorite. And one player had all 16 &#8211; MizzouTgr 1. This strange occurrence, especially for the NCAA tournament, where upsets reign supreme, catapulted MizzouTgr 1 into the lead with 56 total points. Several players picked 15 winners changing the leaderboard significantly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/NCAA-Contest.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/images\/march-madness-sweet16.png\" style=\"float: right; width=100%; max-width: 300px;\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" \/><\/a>Heading into the Sweet 16 there are 28 players who have 50 or more points and with the Thursday and Friday matchups worth three points and the weekend Elite 8 games worth 4 points, it is still anybody&#8217;s contest to win (or lose). Most of the Top 20 on the leaderboard has chosen Duke to become the 2019 National Champion, but there are also two players who have picked either Gonzaga, North Carolina or Michigan State to win it all. One player in the Top 20 has Houston and one Florida State and those picks could be the key to capturing the grand prize in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/NCAA-Contest.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>OSGA NCAA Tournament Challenge<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We also have supplied a ton of March Madness previews, picks and betting tips at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/online_gaming.php?categoryNum=58\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OSGA.com<\/a> to help you win more. And don&#8217;t forget our <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMpbjS0V3SBzjIjx_5eUUIg');\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMpbjS0V3SBzjIjx_5eUUIg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube channel<\/a> where Ross Benjamin went 6-3 picking just underdogs in the first week of the Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Best of luck this weekend with not just your brackets, but all of your <strong>March Madness wagering<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 18th Annual OSGA NCAA Tournament Challenge is entering the critical second week of competition and  the standings are tight, making this contest anybody&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[167,36,157,61,62],"class_list":["post-2959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-promotions","tag-college-basketball","tag-contest","tag-free","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaa-tourney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2994,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions\/2994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.osga.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}