{"id":193179,"date":"2026-03-16T07:31:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193179\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T07:31:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:31:41","slug":"miami-hurricanes-open-as-favorites-over-missouri-tigers-in-2026-ncaa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193179\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Hurricanes open as favorites over Missouri Tigers in 2026 NCAA tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For the round of 64 (the first round, but I\u2019m not going to argue semantics right now), the Canes open as favorites to survive and advance. Here are the particulars:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There was an update to these odds before the end of the Bracket Release show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We\u2019ll dive into this matchup more through the week, but in general, I think Miami should be competitive at a minimum, and win if they play the way they have for the majority of the season (and not the abomination of the ACC Tournament semifinals).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the round of 64 (the first round, but I\u2019m not going to argue semantics right now), the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[37709,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-193179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-basketball-news","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}