{"id":2842,"date":"2012-03-09T13:35:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T17:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2842"},"modified":"2012-03-09T13:35:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T17:35:08","slug":"ctc-day-twelve-preview-the-wac-final-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2842","title":{"rendered":"CTC Day Twelve Preview: The WAC Final Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WAC quarters saw the two clear-cut top teams survive rather easily and then two exciting upsets, basically presenting a pretty smooth road to a Nevada-New Mexico St. showdown in the WAC finals &#8211; just as it ought to be.<\/p>\n<p>No one hit both of the upsets last night, so no one went perfect, but Bry, Lohse, and Waters all went 3-for-4 and hit the more valuable upset, so they are leading this conference, as it stands now.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">#1 Nevada vs. #5 Louisiana Tech<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em>The Wolfpack only scored 54 points last night and yet still cruised to a relatively easy victory over a bad San Jose St. team.\u00a0 Louisiana Tech kept their hot streak going and knocked off a Utah St. team that really wasn&#8217;t a typical USU team, setting up the big shot for an upset.<\/p>\n<p>19 people have Nevada winning this game, with the lone exception (Waters) having already lost the game with Utah St.\u00a0 Most of the field has the Wolfpack winning the tournament.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">#2 New Mexico St. vs. #6 Hawai&#8217;i<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em>The Rainbow Warriors pulled of the WAC&#8217;s biggest quarterfinal upset of the day yesterday, when they came back from 7 points down in the final 6 minutes to get a buzzer-beating win over the Idaho Vandals.\u00a0 NMSU hammered Fresno St., setting up this decent semifinal matchup.<\/p>\n<p>7 peole have already lost this game with Idaho (Alexi, Dave, J, KA, RSmith, Scoot, Stri).\u00a0 The other 13 all have NMSU, with Gersh, Gross, Lohse, Mac, RDoc, Teddy, and Waters all picking the Aggies to take this title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WAC quarters saw the two clear-cut top teams survive rather easily and then two exciting upsets, basically presenting a pretty smooth road to a Nevada-New Mexico St. showdown in the WAC finals &#8211; just as it ought to be. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2842\">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-2842","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\/2842","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=2842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2843,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions\/2843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}