{"id":1210,"date":"2007-03-08T10:44:47","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T10:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/08\/federal-agency-or-basketball-c\/"},"modified":"2007-03-08T10:44:47","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T10:44:47","slug":"federal-agency-or-basketball-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/08\/federal-agency-or-basketball-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Agency or Basketball Conference?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This idea is stolen from Colin Cowherd, a pinhead on ESPN Radio, but even a blind pig finds the occasional acorn. I’m going to list a bunch of abbreviations below, and you tell me which are the initials of conferences in Division I basketball, which are agencies of the US Government, and which could be either.<\/p>\n

For example, “MVC” would be the Missouri Valley Conference<\/a>, which is a basketball conference, while “NACIC” would be the National Counter-Intelligence Center<\/a>, a government agency. “ACC” could be either the Atlantic Coast Conference<\/a> or the Air Combat Command<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The full list of twenty abbreviations is below the fold. When making guesses, please identify the relevant agency or conference. No Googling allowed.<\/p>\n

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  1. AEC<\/li>\n
  2. ARC<\/li>\n
  3. ASC<\/li>\n
  4. BARC<\/li>\n
  5. BEC<\/li>\n
  6. BSC<\/li>\n
  7. CAA<\/li>\n
  8. CUSA<\/li>\n
  9. MAC<\/li>\n
  10. MAAC<\/li>\n
  11. MEAC<\/li>\n
  12. NBAC<\/li>\n
  13. NCC<\/li>\n
  14. NEC<\/li>\n
  15. NWC<\/li>\n
  16. OAC<\/li>\n
  17. OVC<\/li>\n
  18. SBC<\/li>\n
  19. SWC<\/li>\n
  20. WCC<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This idea is stolen from Colin Cowherd, a pinhead on ESPN Radio, but even a blind pig finds the occasional acorn. I’m going to list a bunch of abbreviations below, and you tell me which are the initials of conferences in Division I basketball, which are agencies of the US Government, and which could be… Continue reading Federal Agency or Basketball Conference?<\/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":[26,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","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=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}