{"id":12206,"date":"2015-02-24T15:05:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T22:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=12206"},"modified":"2015-02-24T15:13:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T22:13:21","slug":"6-raider-women-play-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2015\/02\/6-raider-women-play-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"#8 Raider women play tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/60035031@N06\/16428803018\/player\/\" width=\"800\" height=\"520\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>@SOURaiders @SOU_WBB<\/p>\n<p>The first round of the CCC tourney begins tonight in Ashland at 7 p.m. The 25-3 Raiders are already a lock for the 2015 NAIA National Women&#8217;s Basketball Tournament, which begins March 11 in Sioux City, Iowa, but a strong showing in the CCC tournament can earn them one of the top seeds (and possibly weaker opponents in the early rounds) in the national tournament.<\/p>\n<p>A win tonight against College of Idaho will give them another home game in the second round of the conference tourney on Friday. More details can be found <a href=http:\/\/www.souraiders.com\/news\/2015\/2\/23\/WBB_0223152757.aspx target=_new>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. The rankings just came out and SOU is still at #8. Only one other team with 3 or fewer loses is outside of the top four. There is probably some middle-of-the-country bias against teams in the west (like in the <a href=https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2014\/11\/time-for-a-third-meeting-with-carroll\/>NAIA football rankings which tend to penalize Frontier Conference teams<\/a>) so the Raiders will need to prove themselves at the national tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@SOURaiders @SOU_WBB The first round of the CCC tourney begins tonight in Ashland at 7 p.m. The 25-3 Raiders are already a lock for the 2015 NAIA National Women&#8217;s Basketball Tournament, which begins March 11 in Sioux City, Iowa, but a strong showing in the CCC tournament can earn them one of the top seeds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[127,130,326,245,198],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12206"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12216,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206\/revisions\/12216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}