{"id":515,"date":"2010-03-26T14:49:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T19:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=515"},"modified":"2010-03-26T15:00:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T20:00:26","slug":"bsb-tournament-pick-em-friday-sweet-16-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"BSB Tournament Pick ‘Em: Friday Sweet 16 Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tough to imagine tonight living up to last nights’ games, but here’s hoping.\u00a0 Jason now has a\u00a0pretty commanding 13 point lead over 2nd-place Talia, largely thanks to being the only one\u00a0to hit on Butler last night.\u00a0 But there are still a lot of points to be had.\u00a0 The big movers last night were Bry, who moved from 8th to 5th, and Doogan, who dropped from 4th to 7th.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

#6 Tennessee\u00a0vs. #2 Ohio State:\u00a0 <\/strong>Two of the better coaches in the country that have both done a great job this season.\u00a0 Bruce Pearl has his team back in the Sweet 16 despite having to kick his best player off the team earlier in the season.\u00a0 Thad Matta had to deal with the injury to Evan Turner, and then drastically shortened his rotation down the stretch to have his team playing its best ball at the right time.\u00a0 Just three players (Talia, Doogan, and Walsh) have Ohio State winning here.\u00a0 Maureen has Tennessee,\u00a0in what would be an impressive Elite 8 hit if it\u00a0comes through, and everybody else had Georgetown.\u00a0<\/p>\n

#10 Saint Mary’s\u00a0vs. #3 Baylor:<\/strong>\u00a0 Two up-and-coming programs that might have a hard time holding on to their \"dellavedova\"coaches this off-season.\u00a0 Unlike Villanova, Baylor features some big men, like Ekpe Udoh and Quincy Acy, that might be able to slow down Omar Samhan.\u00a0 Plus, Baylor has two elite guards that will be an interesting match-up against the very skilled St. Mary’s perimeter players.\u00a0 Probably the best game of the night.\u00a0 Five players (Jason, Ryan, Bry, Doogan, and Waters) have Baylor here and nobody has St. Mary’s.\u00a0 Most others had Nova.<\/p>\n

#9 Northern Iowa\u00a0vs. #5 Michigan State:<\/strong>\u00a0 The second-most intriguing game to me tonight.\u00a0 The absence of Kalin Lucas takes away from it to some extent but, at the same time, it provides the opportunity to watch Tom Izzo trying to work his coaching magic and get this win.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Northern Iowa is obviously clicking on all cylinders, and I think they have to be considered the favorites here, but not by much.\u00a0 Ben has Michigan State here and everybody else had Kansas.<\/p>\n

#4 Purdue\u00a0vs. #1 Duke:<\/strong> It’s tough to imagine Purdue winning here, but it was tough to imagine them reaching the Sweet 16 coming into this tournament.\u00a0 My guess is that Coach K and his staff have spent a lot of time studying the new-look Boilermakers and how they’ve been able to win games without Hummel.\u00a0 At the same time, I’m weary of counting out Purdue at this point.\u00a0 11 of our 13 competitors have Duke in this game.\u00a0 Weirauch has Purdue and Ben had Siena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tough to imagine tonight living up to last nights’ games, but here’s hoping.\u00a0 Jason now has a\u00a0pretty commanding 13 point lead over 2nd-place Talia, largely thanks to being the only one\u00a0to hit on Butler last night.\u00a0 But there are still … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[976,1016,109,43,1019,1025,261,402,233,42],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-hoops","tag-baylor","tag-bsb-tournament-pick-em","tag-duke","tag-michigan-st","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-northern-iowa","tag-ohio-st","tag-purdue","tag-st-marys","tag-tennessee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}