{"id":2520,"date":"2012-03-05T18:03:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T22:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2012-03-05T17:04:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T21:04:59","slug":"ctc-day-eight-preview-contrasting-styles-and-two-tournament-teams-clash-in-the-caa-title-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2520","title":{"rendered":"CTC Day Eight Preview: Contrasting Styles (and Two Tournament Teams) Clash in the CAA Title Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one can convince me that the two teams that won their semifinal matchups yesterday in the CAA are not among the best 68 teams in America.\u00a0 They should both go, no matter what happens today.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Gross leads the CAA and he has VCU winning this tournament, so a Rams win and he will take it.\u00a0 Mac would sneak in a take the title if Drexel cuts down the nets.<\/p>\n<p><em>#1 Drexel vs. #2 VCU<br \/>\n<\/em>This is a real contrast of styles here, as the Rams want to run you out of the gym, while the Dragons want to beat you up.\u00a0 This game may come down to how well sophomore, first-team all-CAA point guard, Frantz Massenat handles the ruthless VCU fullcourt pressure.\u00a0 The winner of this game will grab the auto-bid, while the other will have to sweat out Selection Sunday.\u00a0 This is an absolutely huge CTC game, considering it&#8217;s worth 48 points, most people have a horse in this race, and the field is pretty split.\u00a0 9 people have Drexel,\u00a0including 4 of the top 5 in the overall standings\u00a0(Alexi, KA, Lil Lohse, Lynch, Mac, Rikey, RDoc, Scoot, Stri).\u00a0 6 others have VCU (Bry, Dave, Doogan, Gross, J, Lohse).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one can convince me that the two teams that won their semifinal matchups yesterday in the CAA are not among the best 68 teams in America.\u00a0 They should both go, no matter what happens today. Currently, Gross leads the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2520\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520","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=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2552,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions\/2552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}