Three more automatic bids last night, earning three teams their coveted one-paragraph summary on Uncertain Principles:<\/p>\n
Wright State<\/strong>: The shocker so far (for small values of “shocker”), the unranked Raiders beat #19 Butler<\/a> to win the Horizon League title and a trip to the NCAA’s. Though Butler is nationally ranked, they were co-champs with Wright State in the regular season, and Wright State won the tiebreaker and got to host the championship.<\/p>\n North Texas<\/strong>: The Mean Green assured that tehre will be at least one school witha color nickname in the field of 65, beating Arkansas State<\/a> behind 24 points from Calvin Watson, who shot 6-7 from three-point range. This is North Texas’s first NCAA bid in almost 20 years, so congratulations to them.<\/p>\n Oral Roberts University<\/strong>: The vanity university of everyone’s favorite 80’s televangelist edged Oakland<\/a> to win the Mid-Continent Conference title. They trailed by 11 at half, after Oakland’s Erik Kangas went 6-8 from three to open the game. He cooled off in the second half, and the Golden Eagles came back to win their second straight bid to the NCAA’s, a clear sign that we are living in the End Times.<\/p>\n The power conference tournaments start today– Syracuse plays UConn at 2:00, so I know what will be distracting me all afternoon– but there are still some little guys left to go, with the Northeast Conference and Big Sky Conference champions being decided today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Three more automatic bids last night, earning three teams their coveted one-paragraph summary on Uncertain Principles: Wright State: The shocker so far (for small values of “shocker”), the unranked Raiders beat #19 Butler to win the Horizon League title and a trip to the NCAA’s. Though Butler is nationally ranked, they were co-champs with Wright… Continue reading Let’s Hear it for the Little Guy 3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}