{"id":255,"date":"2009-03-03T19:09:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T00:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=255"},"modified":"2009-03-09T17:11:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T22:11:11","slug":"ctc-and-theyre-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":"CTC Day 1 Preview: And, They’re Off…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, folks, here we go.\u00a0 The BSB Conference Tournament Challenge is about to get under way in its first year as part of BSB, but it has a tradition dating back to the mid-90’s, when Bry, Doogan, and J decided that the NCAA Tournament was not enough “madness” in any given March.\u00a0 So, they decided to pick the major conference tournaments, also.\u00a0 It then expanded to all <\/em>the conference tournaments, on a weighted scale.\u00a0 It then expanded to four players in 2006 when Stri joined, then five players when Ina joined in 2007.\u00a0 Waters and Alexi made it seven players in 2008, and this year we are pleased to announce that the arrival of Lynch gives us a solid eight contestants.\u00a0 No, we do not claim to “know what we’re talking about,” especially in some of the minor conferences.\u00a0 I think I can confidently say that no one in this competition has watched a game from the Big South or the Atlantic Sun all year, but it is a good time, and only being worth 1\/5 of the points in the major conferences, these little tournaments are good warm-ups and some completely unwarranted bragging rights (who doesn’t need more things to brag about?).\u00a0 We are moving the daily “previews” and “recaps” that used to be emails over to BSB this year, so follow along, if you wish, there will be a recap and a preview posted daily for the next two weeks (yes, my employer knows and has completely signed off on this idea).<\/p>\n

So, without any further ado (there’s already been too much “ado” already), here is the BSB Conference Tournament Challenge:\u00a0 Day 1 Preview<\/p>\n

BIG SOUTH QUARTERFINALS:
\n<\/u><\/strong>The interest level going in to the Big South season this year took a couple major hits early in this season.\u00a0 The 4-time defending champion Winthrop Eagles, who were picked to win again this year, lost 18 of their first 24 games.\u00a0 And, the fascination that is Kenny George, the 7’7″ behemoth at UNC-Asheville missed the entire season because of knee surgery.\u00a0 Regardless, it should be a good tournament, with regular season champ, Radford being chased by the highest-scoring team in the country, #2 VMI, and a solid Liberty team at #3.\u00a0 Winthrop won five straight to close the regular season, taking the #5 seed and will face the George-less UNC-Asheville.\u00a0 Tonight are all four quarterfinal games on the campuses of the higher seeds.<\/p>\n