{"id":477,"date":"2011-11-23T02:21:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T08:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/76-and-old-spice-classics-log5s\/"},"modified":"2011-11-23T02:21:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T08:21:49","slug":"76-and-old-spice-classics-log5s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/76-and-old-spice-classics-log5s\/","title":{"rendered":"76 and Old Spice Classics log5\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s conclude the look at November&#8217;s eight-team tournaments with the two that start on Thursday, providing alternative programming for football.<\/p>\n<p>The 76 Classic gives you three chances to judge whether Saint Louis is a legitimate at-large threat. However, unless you like a slow-tempo, defensive-minded team, you will want to keep your viewing options open while the Billikens play. Rick Majerus\u2019s teams refuse to allow fast breaks and defend the three-point line at all costs, and this year\u2019s version is no different. Amazingly, SLU\u2019s first three opponents have made just 34% of their twos, and if that continues, I have the Billikens going 30-0 heading into the A-10 tournament. <\/p>\n<pre>              Semis  Final  Champ\nSaint Louis    92.6   56.1   35.7\nNew Mexico     79.7   53.1   25.8\nVillanova      88.4   41.5   23.8\nWashington St. 51.2   20.8    6.8\nOklahoma       48.8   19.3    6.2\nSanta Clara    20.3    6.9    1.4\nUC Riverside   11.6    1.5    0.2\nBoston College  7.4    1.0    0.1\n<\/pre>\n<p>The Old Spice Classic is another tourney that features a Big Ten team as the favorite. Minnesota actually has faced a decent early schedule against (104) Bucknell, (124) South Dakota State, and (94) Fairfield and they won all three by double-digits, though all were at home. Reasonable chances exist for sleeper runs by Indiana State and the aforementioned Stags. <\/p>\n<pre>            Semis  Final  Champ\nMinnesota    83.1   65.2   46.9\nDayton       71.3   43.3   19.5\nIndiana St.  67.9   21.4   10.0\nFairfield    55.0   26.3    9.9\nArizona St.  45.0   19.4    6.5\nWake Forest  28.7   11.0    2.9\nDePaul       16.9    7.4    2.6\nTexas Tech   32.1    6.0    1.8\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s conclude the look at November&#8217;s eight-team tournaments with the two that start on Thursday, providing alternative programming for football. The 76 Classic gives you three chances to judge whether Saint Louis is a legitimate at-large threat. However, unless you like a slow-tempo, defensive-minded team, you will want to keep your viewing options open while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}