{"id":2846,"date":"2012-03-10T09:49:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T13:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2012-03-10T09:49:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T13:49:32","slug":"ctc-day-thirteen-the-big-ten-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2846","title":{"rendered":"CTC Day Thirteen: The Big Ten Semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All chalk in the quarters for the Big Ten, though Minnesota nearly spoiled the party.\u00a0 But, this should be a really good Final Four here in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Despite it being all chalk, only Bry, Rikey, and RDoc hit all 4.\u00a0 Rikey does have the lead, due to a better first round than the other two.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>#1 Michigan St. vs. #4 Wisconsin<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span>The Badgers took care of Indiana yesterday, while Michigan St. looked as good as anyone anywhere in their dismantling of Iowa.\u00a0 Now, we get to see the third version of a matchup that isn&#8217;t exactly pleasing to the eye.<\/p>\n<p>Gross (the die-hard Michigan State fan) is the only one that has Wisconsin here, so he could gain some major ground on the rest of the field here.\u00a0 Dave, Doogan, Lil Lohse, Lynch, Mac, Primm, and RSmith have already lost with Indiana.\u00a0 The other 12 people have Sparty, with Gersh, Scoot, Stri, and Waters as the only 4 with the top seed winning this tournament.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>#2 Michigan vs. #3 Ohio St.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span>The Wolverines narrowly escaped a young, feisty Minnesota squad yesterday, while OSU beat up on Purdue.\u00a0 Now, these old rivals get to meet again &#8211; on the hardwood this time &#8211; in a really big game.<\/p>\n<p>Lil Lohse and Lynch are the only two that have Michigan here.\u00a0 KA and Stri had Purdue, so they have already lost it.\u00a0 The other 16 have OSU, with most of them picking the Buckeyes to win the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All chalk in the quarters for the Big Ten, though Minnesota nearly spoiled the party.\u00a0 But, this should be a really good Final Four here in Chicago. Despite it being all chalk, only Bry, Rikey, and RDoc hit all 4.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2846\">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-2846","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\/2846","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=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2859,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}