{"id":48,"date":"2016-02-29T15:28:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T21:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/2016-patriot-league-tournament-preview\/"},"modified":"2016-02-29T15:28:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T21:28:26","slug":"2016-patriot-league-tournament-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/2016-patriot-league-tournament-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Patriot League tournament preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Patriot League<br \/>\nMarch 1, 3, 6, 9. All games at higher seed.<br \/>\nkPOY: Tim Kempton, Lehigh.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Patriot League tournament gets started Tuesday night with first round action at Navy and Loyola. <\/p>\n<p>Bucknell and Lehigh destroyed the conventional wisdom that a difficult non-conference schedule can crush a team\u2019s mental fortitude. The two teams went a combined 3-17 against Division-I teams in non-conference play, but finished as the top two teams in the conference. <\/p>\n<p>At one time, Lehigh was 6-14, but the Mountain Hawks enter the tournament 15-14 after winning their last nine. That\u2019s nothing compared to American, though. The Eagles were 2-15 after losing their first six conference games, but they finished in a four-way tie for fourth after going 9-3 the rest of the way. <\/p>\n<p>The PL plays all games at the higher seed and that makes Bucknell the clear favorite. Army, who was 3-6 in conference play before getting Tanner Plomb back from injury and finishing 9-9, has a realistic chance of ending its forever tournament drought. But the Black Knights will likely have to win two games on the road to do so.<\/p>\n<pre>                      Qtrs Semis Final Champ\n 1 Bucknell            100  86.4  66.9  46.7\n 2 Lehigh              100  75.7  58.3  28.5\n 3 Boston University   100  84.1  29.3  11.5\n 4 Army                100  69.0  21.2   6.7\n 7 Navy               87.4  23.2   9.3   3.0\n 5 Colgate             100  31.0   8.7   2.5\n 8 Loyola MD          74.8  11.1   2.7   0.5\n 6 American            100  15.9   2.9   0.4\n 9 Holy Cross         25.2   2.5   0.4   0.05\n10 Lafayette          12.6   1.1   0.2   0.02\n\n<\/pre>\n<p><u><strong>Patriot League tourney records (since 1999)<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<pre>American   23-11\nBucknell   24-13\nHoly Cross 20-13\nLafayette  18-14\nLehigh     16-14\nBoston U.   2- 2\nColgate     8-17\nArmy        5-17\nNavy        4-17\nLoyola MD   0- 3\n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patriot League March 1, 3, 6, 9. All games at higher seed. kPOY: Tim Kempton, Lehigh. The Patriot League tournament gets started Tuesday night with first round action at Navy and Loyola. Bucknell and Lehigh destroyed the conventional wisdom that a difficult non-conference schedule can crush a team\u2019s mental fortitude. The two teams went a [&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\/48"}],"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=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}