{"id":2512,"date":"2012-03-04T20:08:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T00:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2512"},"modified":"2012-03-04T20:08:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T00:08:58","slug":"ctc-day-seven-preview-the-sun-belt-quarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2512","title":{"rendered":"CTC Day Seven Preview: The Sun Belt Quarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After three decently interesting games yesterday, the Sun Belt picks up with a quarterfinal quadruple-header today.<\/p>\n<p><em>#1 Middle Tennessee vs. #9 Arkansas St.<br \/>\n<\/em>The Red Wolves knocked off FL-Atlantic by 15 yesterday and looked real good in doing it.\u00a0 Middle Tennessee has been a lot better than the rest of the conference all year and they start their title chase today.\u00a0 All 20 people have Mid Tenn here, with a lot of them picking the Blue Raiders to win it all.<\/p>\n<p><em>#2 AR-Little Rock vs. #7 W. Kentucky<br \/>\n<\/em>The Hilltoppers are one of the classic Sun Belt programs (probably, The Sun Belt elite), but they really struggled all year.\u00a0 However, with everyone alive in March, they have new life and survived a tough game yesterday against FIU.\u00a0 AR-Little Rock, the surprising champion of a year ago, had a thrilling season chock full of overtime and buzzer-beating wins in conference, getting them to the #2-seed.\u00a0 6 people actually have WKU in the upset here (Alexi, Gross, Lohse, Lynch, RSmith, Teddy).\u00a0 The other 14 have UALR.\u00a0 Mac has the Trojans winning the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p><em>#3 Denver vs. #6 S. Alabama<br \/>\n<\/em>S. Alabama survived against #11 Troy last night and now get the reward of facing a really, really good Denver team.\u00a0 The Pioneers are about as talented as a mid-major gets, but they were up and down all year, particularly away from their mile-high home court.\u00a0 But, they are definitely good enough to take this whole thing, but it starts today.\u00a0 Gersh and RSmith have USA in the nice upset here.\u00a0 16 people all Denver here (Dave and Doogan have already lost with Troy here).\u00a0 A number of entries have the Pioneers in the finals.\u00a0 8 people have them winning it all (Alexi, J, KA, Lohse, Lynch, RDoc, Stri, and Waters).<\/p>\n<p><em>#4 LA-Lafayette vs. #5 N. Texas<br \/>\n<\/em>This is a great quarterfinal between two teams who got yesterday off to prepare for this one.\u00a0 The Ragin&#8217; Cajuns have had a decent season, but started to falter at the end, slipping to 4th.\u00a0 The Mean Green, on the other hand, started really slowly, but have been playing much better lately.\u00a0 No matter who survives this one, they should give their next opponent (most likely, Middle Tennessee) a real test.\u00a0 This game could be a real swing game, as it&#8217;s nearly split down the middle.\u00a0 11 people actually took the mild upset with N. Texas (Bry, Gross, J, Lohse, Primm, Rikey, RDoc, RSmith, Scoot, Stri, Teddy).\u00a0 The other 9 have LA-Lafayette.\u00a0 Gersh and Lohse have the most at stake here, as they have their picks here beating Middle Tennessee next round (Gersh with ULL, Lohse with UNT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After three decently interesting games yesterday, the Sun Belt picks up with a quarterfinal quadruple-header today. #1 Middle Tennessee vs. #9 Arkansas St. The Red Wolves knocked off FL-Atlantic by 15 yesterday and looked real good in doing it.\u00a0 Middle &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2512\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[479,483],"tags":[1261],"class_list":["post-2512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conf-tourney-challenge","category-conference-tourney-challenge","tag-ctc-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2513,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions\/2513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}