{"id":1205,"date":"2018-03-11T15:31:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T15:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2018-03-11T15:31:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T15:31:23","slug":"selection-sunday-is-here-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1205","title":{"rendered":"Selection Sunday is here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five remaining games exist in the college basketball regular season.\u00a0 \u00a0The winners of those five games don&#8217;t have to worry about if the Selection Committee will pick them &#8211; they will have earned their invitation to the dance.\u00a0 That being said, a few of the teams playing are safely in the field &#8211; so it is really more to improve their seeding.<\/p>\n<p>Here are your five games:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Atlantic 10 &#8211; Rhode Island vs Davidson &#8211; regular season champs Rhode Island are probably safely in the field.\u00a0 But Davidson certainly is not.\u00a0 If the Wildcats can pull off the upset, someone&#8217;s bubble will be burst as Davidson will steal their bid.<\/li>\n<li>SEC &#8211; Tennessee vs Kentucky &#8211; thanks to Auburn&#8217;s mini-collapse at the end of the season, the Volunteers managed to tie for the regular season crown.\u00a0 Could Tennessee sneak up all the way to a 2 seed if they also win the conference tournament?\u00a0 Kentucky is certainly going to be a tough opponent &#8211; as they also look to improve their seed.<\/li>\n<li>American &#8211; Cincinnati vs Houston &#8211; the Bearcats might also be in the running for a 2 seed if they can double up their regular season championship with conference tourney title.\u00a0 Houston is also a ranked team that surprised a few people by upsetting Wichita State.\u00a0 That being said, this game is at 3:30 pm, which makes me believe the committee will have set up their bracket before this game is over.<\/li>\n<li>Ivy &#8211; Harvard vs Penn.\u00a0 \u00a0The Ivy league regular season co-champions will battle to get their conference&#8217;s auto-bid.<\/li>\n<li>Sun Belt &#8211; Georgia State vs Texas-Arlington.\u00a0 Texas-Arlington managed to upset the Sun Belt&#8217;s regular season champion, Louisiana on Saturday to reach the finals &#8211; do they have another upset in them to get them to Big Dance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the meantime, I am working on getting the last couple of days of scores for the statisticians looking to fit their models, as well as my typical crazy version of Bracketology &#8211; where I find myself struggling between putting who I think the committee will put in vs. who I would put in.\u00a0 The point of Bracketology is to predict who the committee selects, not who I would rank higher &#8211; which makes me sad as I consider putting in teams that go 8-11 in conference ahead of small mid-major conference titles, or major conference teams that go 13-5 in conference, but somehow only have 1 Quadrant 1 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the last 5 games of the season and enjoy the Selection Show tonight at 6 pm EST.\u00a0 The tournament is almost here!!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five remaining games exist in the college basketball regular season.\u00a0 \u00a0The winners of those five games don&#8217;t have to worry about if the Selection Committee will pick them &#8211; they will have earned their invitation to the dance.\u00a0 That being said, a few of the teams playing are safely in the field &#8211; so it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1206,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}