{"id":591,"date":"2007-03-25T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-25T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/the-most-overblown-storyline-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2007-03-25T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-25T08:00:00","slug":"the-most-overblown-storyline-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/the-most-overblown-storyline-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Overblown Storyline of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UNC\/Georgetown game is so awesome on so many levels. One of those levels is the respective paces of each team &#8211; UNC ranks 9th fastest and Georgetown 9th slowest in the nation in adjusted tempo. And of course we&#8217;ll hear over and over from the CBS personnel how the team that controls the tempo will have a big advantage.<\/p>\n<p>But neither team will control the tempo. Georgetown will play slow and UNC will play fast. I&#8217;ll go out on a limb here and guess that early on, Billy Packer will lament that the game is being played at Carolina&#8217;s pace and Georgetown won&#8217;t be able to hang because of it. The game will probably be played at a medium pace with a decent amount of points, making it seem a little faster paced.<\/p>\n<p>Consider though that the Hoyas fastest game was a November 15th battle with Vanderbilt that they won by 16. Their most recent game against Vandy was 17 possessions slower than the regular-season contest, and the Hoyas needed a swallowed whistle to survive. <\/p>\n<p>Sure, Georgetown shouldn&#8217;t play in a 75 possession game and UNC doesn&#8217;t want a 58 possession game, but it&#8217;s unlikely either will happen. You&#8217;ll hear the tempo thing brought up as the most important aspect to this game, and it&#8217;s not close. Let&#8217;s start with keeping Roy Hibbert out of foul trouble&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UNC\/Georgetown game is so awesome on so many levels. One of those levels is the respective paces of each team &#8211; UNC ranks 9th fastest and Georgetown 9th slowest in the nation in adjusted tempo. And of course we&#8217;ll hear over and over from the CBS personnel how the team that controls the tempo [&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\/591"}],"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=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}