{"id":2600,"date":"2012-03-06T15:57:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T19:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2600"},"modified":"2012-03-06T15:57:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T19:57:37","slug":"ctc-day-nine-preview-we-didnt-forget-about-you-big-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2600","title":{"rendered":"CTC Day Nine Preview: We Didn&#8217;t Forget About You, Big Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It only took a week and a half, but the top two teams in, essentially, a two-team conference will finally enter the fray here in the Big Sky tonight for the semifinal round.<\/p>\n<p><em>#1 Montana vs. #4 Eastern Washington<\/em><br \/>\nEastern Washington came from behind to knock off Idaho St. on Saturday, setting up a meeting with the top-seeded Grizzlies in Missoula.\u00a0 Montana split with Weber St. and won their other 14 conference games to secure the all-important #1-seed and homecourt advantage.\u00a0 Now, they just have to protect the house tonight and tomorrow night and they&#8217;re going dancing.\u00a0 19 people have Montana winning this game, with KA the lone dissenting opinion, but she&#8217;s already lost it with Idaho St. here.\u00a0 13 people have Montana winning this tournament.<\/p>\n<p><em>#2 Weber St. vs. #3 Portland St.<\/em><br \/>\nNot only did the #1-seed get the Grizzlies homecourt advantage, but it also got them to avoid Portland St. in the semis.\u00a0 Not that the Pilots really have much of a shot at slowing down Damian Lillard and the Wildcats, but they might, at least, give them a run.\u00a0 Dave, Primm, and RSmith have the nice upset pick here of PSU.\u00a0 6 people (Gersh, Gross, Lohse, Scoot, Stri, Waters) have Weber winning this tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It only took a week and a half, but the top two teams in, essentially, a two-team conference will finally enter the fray here in the Big Sky tonight for the semifinal round. #1 Montana vs. #4 Eastern Washington Eastern &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2600\">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-2600","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\/2600","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=2600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2601,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions\/2601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}