{"id":2518,"date":"2012-03-05T17:51:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T21:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2012-03-05T16:53:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T20:53:49","slug":"ctc-day-eight-preview-the-wcc-finale-we-all-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2518","title":{"rendered":"CTC Day Eight Preview: The WCC Finale We All Wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Mary&#8217;s &#8211; Gonzaga is fast becoming one of the most heated mid-major rivalries in the country, and another chapter is about to be written.\u00a0 St. Mary&#8217;s finally won a regular season title outright this year, but they still have work to do to complete this WCC season.<\/p>\n<p>Stri is currently leading the WCC by himself, and he has Gonzaga in the final, so if the Zags pull it out, Stri will take the 2012 WCC crown.\u00a0 If St. Mary&#8217;s wins, then Alexi will come from behind and steal the title.<\/p>\n<p><em>#1 St. Mary&#8217;s vs. #2 Gonzaga<br \/>\n<\/em>Both teams only entered the tournament in the semis two nights ago and came through to reach this much-anticipated finale.\u00a0 Judging by the performances on Saturday night, one would have to favor the Zags, as they absolutely hammered a tournament-destined BYU team, while St. Mary&#8217;s trailed for most of their game against middling San Francisco.\u00a0 18 of the 20 entries have one of these two teams winning this tournament (Gross lost with BYU; Mac lost with LMU).\u00a0 Of those 18, 13 of them are for the #2-seeded Zags.\u00a0 There are 5 with St. Mary&#8217;s (Alexi, Bry, J, Primm, Teddy).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Mary&#8217;s &#8211; Gonzaga is fast becoming one of the most heated mid-major rivalries in the country, and another chapter is about to be written.\u00a0 St. Mary&#8217;s finally won a regular season title outright this year, but they still have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2518\">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-2518","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\/2518","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=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2549,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions\/2549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}