{"id":2893,"date":"2012-03-11T12:04:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T16:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2012-03-11T12:04:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T16:04:50","slug":"ctc-day-fourteen-preview-the-big-ten-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2893","title":{"rendered":"CTC Day Fourteen Preview: The Big Ten Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best conference in America started to show some chinks in the armor down the stretch, as teams like Minnesota, Northwestern, and especially Illinois, were revealed to be rather fraudulent.\u00a0 But, that doesn&#8217;t change how good the top of this league is.\u00a0 And, now we&#8217;ve got a championship game that may easily be recreated in the Final Four in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Rikey is the current Big Ten leader and will clinch the 2012 CTC title here with an Ohio St. win.\u00a0 If the Spartans come through today, Gersh and Scoot will split the 2012 crown.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>#1 Michigan St. vs. #3 Ohio St.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span>One of the best 3-seeds in a conference tournament I can remember is taking on the conference&#8217;s #1-seed in a game that could determine a #1-seed in the Big Tournament (though, more likely, a #2 is the ceiling for the Buckeyes).\u00a0 OSU seems to have found that extra gear at just the right time, as they have two blowouts of sure-fire tournament teams, beating Purdue by 17 on Friday night and Michigan by 22 yesterday.\u00a0 Michigan St. won a weird game yesterday against Wisconsin, but Tom Izzo might be the best ever at coaching in a tournament setting.<\/p>\n<p>Gersh, Scoot, Stri, and Waters are the only 4 with #1 Michigan St. here.\u00a0 KA, Lil Lohse, and Lynch have already lost this game with Purdue, Michigan, and Indiana.\u00a0 The other 13 have Ohio St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best conference in America started to show some chinks in the armor down the stretch, as teams like Minnesota, Northwestern, and especially Illinois, were revealed to be rather fraudulent.\u00a0 But, that doesn&#8217;t change how good the top of this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=2893\">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-2893","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\/2893","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=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2894,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions\/2894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}