{"id":2734,"date":"2012-03-08T10:13:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T14:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2012-03-08T08:31:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T12:31:41","slug":"ctc-day-eleven-preview-conference-usa-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2734","title":{"rendered":"CTC Day Eleven Preview: Conference USA Quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conf USA gets going with its quarterfinal quadruple-header that adds the top 4 seeds to the winners from the opening round.<\/p>\n<p><em>#2 Southern Miss vs. #10 E. Carolina<br \/>\n<\/em>ECU upset Rice yesterday, and now they&#8217;ll get a shot for a real upset when they take on tourney lock, S. Miss.\u00a0 S. Miss has gaudy computer numbers, which go a long way in the Committee room, so they should be in.\u00a0 Gross, KA, and Mac have already lost this game with Rice.\u00a0 The other 17 have S. Miss.\u00a0 J, Lil Lohse, Lynch, and Primm have S.Miss winning this tournament.<\/p>\n<p><em>#3 Tulsa vs. #6 Marshall<br \/>\n<\/em>Marshall avoided an upset yesterday with a big second half against SMU, and now they get a shot at Tulsa.\u00a0 This is a very popular upset pick, as only 9 took Tulsa here (Gersh, J, KA, Lil Lohse, Mac, Rikey, Scoot, Stri, Waters).\u00a0 The other 11 have Marshall.\u00a0 Gross and Lohse have Marshall going to the finals.\u00a0 KA, Mac, Rikey, Scoot, Stri, and Waters all have Tulsa in the finals.\u00a0 Mac and Rikey have them winning it all.<\/p>\n<p><em>#1 Memphis vs. #8 UTEP<br \/>\n<\/em>The Tigers were probably wishing that Houston would hold on to their 8-point lead in the final 3 minutes (I know I was&#8230;), but they didn&#8217;t and UTEP moves on to play the Tigers tonight.\u00a0 Memphis is starting to play like the team that everyone had in the Top-15 to start the season, and I wouldn&#8217;t want to be the #1-seed that has to play 8th-seeded Memphis next weekend.\u00a0 J and KA have the huge UTEP upset pick here, while the other 18 have Memphis.\u00a0 The majority of the field has Memphis winning it all.<\/p>\n<p><em>#4 Central Florida vs. #5 UAB<br \/>\n<\/em>UCF has been pretty solid all year long.\u00a0 They do have some guy named Jordan, so that&#8217;s always good when you&#8217;re forming a basketball team.\u00a0 They will take on a UAB team that survived a scare from 12th-seeded Tulane last night.\u00a0 Alexi, RSmith, and Scoot have the minor upset pick of UAB; the other 17 have UCF.\u00a0 Dave and KA have UCF winning this title; J has them reaching the finals, but losing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conf USA gets going with its quarterfinal quadruple-header that adds the top 4 seeds to the winners from the opening round. #2 Southern Miss vs. #10 E. Carolina ECU upset Rice yesterday, and now they&#8217;ll get a shot for a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2734\">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-2734","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\/2734","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=2734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2736,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions\/2736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}