{"id":727,"date":"2006-01-09T04:00:10","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/the-hard-truth\/"},"modified":"2006-01-09T04:00:10","modified_gmt":"2006-01-09T10:00:10","slug":"the-hard-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/the-hard-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hard Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, hoops nation is faced with that fact that Duke is the undisputed best team in the nation. It may not be true in a couple of months, but you&#8217;d be foolish to argue against it now.<\/p>\n<p><b><\/p>\n<p><u>Friday<\/u><\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/p>\n<pre>                           <b>FG    3pt  FT   Reb\n                      Min  M-A   M-A  M-A  O-T   A F S TO BLK Pts<\/b>\nSimon Conn             40 11-12  0-0  2-2  5-13  1 2 0  2  5   24\n<b>Result: Loss.<\/b> Kennesaw St. 74, Gardner Webb 68.<\/pre>\n<p><b><\/p>\n<p><u>Saturday<\/u><\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/p>\n<pre>                           <b>FG    3pt  FT   Reb\n                      Min  M-A   M-A  M-A  O-T   A F S TO BLK Pts<\/b>\nEric Hicks             38  9-13  1-2  3-5  7-12  2 0 1  0  10  22\n<b>Result: Win.<\/b> Cincinnati 70, Marquette 66.<\/pre>\n<p>The first repeat winner, I think. This game gives Hicks a better offensive rebounding percentage than defensive rebounding percentage for the season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u><b>Sunday<\/b><\/u><\/p>\n<pre>                           <b>FG    3pt  FT   Reb\n                      Min  M-A   M-A  M-A  O-T   A F S TO BLK Pts<\/b>\nAndre Collins          39  9-25  9-18 2-2  1-3   3 0 7  4  1   29\n<b>Result: Win.<\/b> Loyola (Maryland) 78, Marist 75.<\/pre>\n<p>Andre is always good for some crazy numbers in his line. This time it&#8217;s 9 of 18 on threes and 0 of 7 on twos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, hoops nation is faced with that fact that Duke is the undisputed best team in the nation. It may not be true in a couple of months, but you&#8217;d be foolish to argue against it now. Friday FG 3pt FT Reb Min M-A M-A M-A O-T A F S TO BLK Pts Simon [&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\/727"}],"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=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}