{"id":950,"date":"2004-02-25T22:19:48","date_gmt":"2004-02-26T04:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/bursting-day\/"},"modified":"2004-02-25T22:19:48","modified_gmt":"2004-02-26T04:19:48","slug":"bursting-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/bursting-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Bursting Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kent State lost at Buffalo 82-68 tonight, a team that had no previous top 100 wins. There&#8217;s no way to give Kent any benefit of the doubt here, they got waxed from start to finish by a bad ballclub. This effectively ends the Golden Flashes at-large chances, barring possibly a run to the MAC championship against Western Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Richmond got knocked off by Rhode Island, and now probably needs a win over St. Joe&#8217;s in the A-10 tourney to get in.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Florida State missed a golden opportunity to sew up a bid by losing at Wake Forest in overtime. They blew a 15 point lead with 10 minutes to play.<\/p>\n<p>The one team the helped itself was DePaul, getting the road win at Louisville. CUSA has been a sharing conference this year, with good RPI teams Louisville and Cincinnati freely giving away games to the rest of the league. This is a big reason they may be a 6-bid league this year, with nobody getting a top 4 seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent State lost at Buffalo 82-68 tonight, a team that had no previous top 100 wins. There&#8217;s no way to give Kent any benefit of the doubt here, they got waxed from start to finish by a bad ballclub. This effectively ends the Golden Flashes at-large chances, barring possibly a run to the MAC championship [&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\/950"}],"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=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}