{"id":995,"date":"2017-03-08T00:25:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T00:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=995"},"modified":"2017-03-08T00:25:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T00:25:42","slug":"tuesdays-games-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=995","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday&#8217;s Games to Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Game of the day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>West Coast Championship &#8211; #4 Gonzaga (31-1) vs #19 St. Mary&#8217;s (28-3) &#8211; This might be the easiest pick of the week.\u00a0\u00a0 Mid-major conference championship between two ranked teams with only 4 losses combined.\u00a0\u00a0 Gonzaga is responsible for 2 of those 4 losses as the swept St. Mary&#8217;s this year.\u00a0\u00a0 But St. Mary&#8217;s is coming off a 31 point destruction of BYU &#8211; the team that ruined Gonzaga&#8217;s unbeaten season, so they have to be coming into this game confident.\u00a0\u00a0 Should be a great game<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conference Championships:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Northeast &#8211; #1 Mt St Mary&#8217;s (18-15) vs #4 St Francis (PA) (16-15) &#8211; Mt St Mary&#8217;s struggled in the non-conference season, but went 14-4 in conference to take the regular season title.<\/li>\n<li>Summit &#8211; #3 Omaha (18-13) vs #4 South Dakota State (17-16) &#8211; South Dakota St took out regular season champs South Dakota to give them a chance against Omaha to head to the dance.<\/li>\n<li>Horizon &#8211; #4 Northern Kentucky (23-10) vs #10 Milwaukee (11-23) &#8211; This has been a wild conference tournament that saw 3 of the 4 semi-finalists have losing records.\u00a0\u00a0 Milwaukee only won 4 of 18 games in conference, but they now find themselves 1 victory away from the NCAAs after upsetting Detroit, regular-season co-champs Valparaiso, and UIC.\u00a0 Northern Kentucky was the only one of the top 4 seeds who didn&#8217;t lose in the quarter-finals, and now find themselves the favorites in a conference tournament that has not necessarily been the best position.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other Games of Interest:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Wake Forest (19-12) vs Boston College (9-23) &#8211; the ACC 1st round games have started &#8211; other than enjoying fun ACC games, these are important as Wake Forest (as well as Clemson, Georgia Tech or Pitt) can&#8217;t afford a loss in the 1st round if they want to make a late run into the tournament.\u00a0\u00a0 Wake gets the nod because they might only need to win this game, while the others definitely need to go deep to get in consideration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy the games!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game of the day West Coast Championship &#8211; #4 Gonzaga (31-1) vs #19 St. Mary&#8217;s (28-3) &#8211; This might be the easiest pick of the week.\u00a0\u00a0 Mid-major conference championship between two ranked teams with only 4 losses combined.\u00a0\u00a0 Gonzaga is responsible for 2 of those 4 losses as the swept St. Mary&#8217;s this year.\u00a0\u00a0 But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","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=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}