{"id":815921,"date":"2026-03-16T21:33:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/815921\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T21:33:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:33:53","slug":"how-many-packers-went-to-march-madness-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/815921\/","title":{"rendered":"How many Packers went to March Madness schools?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If you need a little help finding a rooting interest for this year\u2019s tournament, we took the time to find all of the Green Bay Packers connections between the team\u2019s current roster and the colleges participating in March Madness this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I\u2019m not much of a college basketball guy myself, but I\u2019m going to try to make it to the Moda Center to see AJ Dybantsa (BYU) and Darius Acuff Jr. (Arkansas), two projected top selections in the upcoming NBA draft. Otherwise, I\u2019m going in pretty blind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If you want to find some Packers-related inspiration, whether for your bracket or for rooting interests while you watch games, here are Green Bay\u2019s current players who attended schools in the big dance this year.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina State (11-seed)<\/p>\n<p>North Dakota State (14-seed)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you need a little help finding a rooting interest for this year\u2019s tournament, we took the time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[7,41,345,2702,2514,2513,6,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-815921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-green-bay","10":"tag-green-bay-packers","11":"tag-green-bay-packers-news","12":"tag-greenbay","13":"tag-greenbaypackers","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}