{"id":2891,"date":"2012-03-11T11:53:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T15:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2891"},"modified":"2012-03-11T11:53:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T15:53:05","slug":"ctc-day-fourteen-preview-the-a-10-gives-us-one-last-chance-for-bid-thievery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2891","title":{"rendered":"CTC Day Fourteen Preview: The A-10 Gives Us One Last Chance for Bid Thievery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The true depth of the A-10 has been on display all year, yet was never more evident than in AC this week.\u00a0 6 games so far have been played down the shore, and they have all been hard-fought competitive games, leading us to a championship between a potential Big Dance sleeper and the coming-to-fruiting A-10 tournament sleeper.<\/p>\n<p>Teddy, who nailed the UMass upset of Temple in the quarterfinals, is the current A-10 leader, but he has lost his champion (St. Louis).\u00a0 With no one picking the Bonnies, Teddy will win the A-10 crown if St. Bonaventure wins.\u00a0 If Xavier wins, Dave (who has already clinched the money division) will steal this title.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>#3 Xavier vs. #4 St. Bonaventure<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span>The Musketeers are probably pretty safe for the tournament, after yesterday&#8217;s 7-point win over a really good St. Louis team, but it might be a good idea for them to finish the job today.\u00a0 The Bonnies, who have beaten St. Joe&#8217;s and UMass here in AC en route to today&#8217;s championship match with the Musketeers.\u00a0 And, as good as the Bonnies have been all year, they still have yet to prove that they can play with the league&#8217;s elite.\u00a0 Today would be a good time to start.\u00a0 Side note:\u00a0 it is surprising to anyone else that this the first time Xavier has made the A-10 championship game since 2006.<\/p>\n<p>No one has the Bonnies even in this game, let alone winning it.\u00a0 A title for XU here would give Dave and KA a 90-point standings bump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The true depth of the A-10 has been on display all year, yet was never more evident than in AC this week.\u00a0 6 games so far have been played down the shore, and they have all been hard-fought competitive games, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2891\">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-2891","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\/2891","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=2891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2892,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891\/revisions\/2892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}