{"id":2706,"date":"2012-03-08T11:54:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T15:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2706"},"modified":"2012-03-08T00:00:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T04:00:17","slug":"ctc-day-eleven-preview-the-mac-quarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2706","title":{"rendered":"CTC Day Eleven Preview: The MAC Quarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After four games on Monday, and two more last night, the MAC is ready for a quarterfinal doubleheader tonight, as the 3- and 4-seeds join the party.<\/p>\n<p><em>#4 Kent St. vs. #8 Western Michigan<br \/>\n<\/em>WMU took care of N. Illinois last night 71-54 after outlasting Ball St. on Monday to reach this quarterfinal round and a date with Kent tonight.\u00a0 Kent is always solid, and this year is no different.\u00a0 They took a couple close losses to drop them to 4th, but they are as dangerous as anyone else in this conference both this week and next.\u00a0 The winner here will have a showdown with #1 Akron.\u00a0 Everyone has KSU here except Primm, RSmith, and Teddy, who have already lost with E. Michigan in this spot.\u00a0 Dave and KA have Kent winning this tournament.<\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><em>#3 Ohio vs.#7 Toledo<br \/>\n<\/em>The Rockets held off a surprisingly competitive Central Michigan team last night, after beating Miami (OH) on Monday.\u00a0 Now, they come to Cleveland to face Ohio U.\u00a0 This Bobcat team is really, really good, and very young, so they should have their day&#8230;and it might even be this day.\u00a0 The winner will face #2 Buffalo in tomorrow&#8217;s semifinal.<em> <\/em>Gross and J have really nice upset picks here with Toledo.\u00a0 Dave has already lost this by picking Bowling Green.\u00a0 The other 17 entries have Ohio.\u00a0 Half the field has Ohio winning this tournament (Alexi, Doogan, Gersh, Lohse, Lynch, Mac, RDoc, RSmith Scoot, Stri).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After four games on Monday, and two more last night, the MAC is ready for a quarterfinal doubleheader tonight, as the 3- and 4-seeds join the party. #4 Kent St. vs. #8 Western Michigan WMU took care of N. Illinois &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2706\">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-2706","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\/2706","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=2706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2725,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706\/revisions\/2725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}