{"id":2135,"date":"2022-03-08T00:34:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T00:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2022-03-08T00:34:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T00:34:38","slug":"center-stage-for-the-southern-and-sun-belt-conferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=2135","title":{"rendered":"Center stage for the Southern and Sun Belt conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Monday and Tuesday are fun days for the Lunatic &#8211; that is because it is mainly many of the one bid conferences getting a chance to play their conference tournament finals before the media moves towards the major conference tournaments.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, the 7 pm TV spot highlights the two conference finals tonight.  In the Sun Belt, 3rd seed Georgia State is playing 8th seed Louisiana for a chance to make the Big Dance.  In the Southern, regular season champ Chattanooga is battling against 2nd seed Furman &#8211; both the top teams from the Southern are in the top 80 of the NET Rankings, so possibly might be one of those dangerous 12-14 seeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But we also have the semi-finals of the Colonial, Horizon, Summit and West Coast conferences.  The big game of course is at 9 pm when #1 Gonzaga goes against San Francisco, as the Dons try to show that they deserve an at-large bid against the top team in the AP poll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the games today and tomorrow matter &#8211; because with maybe the exception of the West Coast Conference, these game are basically win or go home.  Also, with less games going on, it gives the Lunatic a little bit of a chance to catch up on analyses before the season ends this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy the games &#8211; they should be fun ones!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday and Tuesday are fun days for the Lunatic &#8211; that is because it is mainly many of the one bid conferences getting a chance to play their conference tournament finals before the media moves towards the major conference tournaments. Today, the 7 pm TV spot highlights the two conference finals tonight. In the Sun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2022-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135","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=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}