{"id":29159,"date":"2023-03-04T00:11:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T07:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=29159"},"modified":"2023-03-03T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T21:18:00","slug":"sou-basketball-national-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2023\/03\/sou-basketball-national-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"SOU basketball @ national tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_29163\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/232_7643-RAW-sou-mens-basketball-brett-hollins-DeNoiseAI-low-light.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29163\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/232_7643-RAW-sou-mens-basketball-brett-hollins-DeNoiseAI-low-light.jpg\" alt=\"sou mens basketball brett hollins-DeNoiseAI-low-light\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brett Hollins<\/p><\/div>\n<p>@SOURaiders @souraiders_wbb @SOUhoops @clara_robbins_<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29164\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/232_7915-RAW-sou-womens-basketball-clara-robbins-DeNoiseAI-low-light.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29164\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/232_7915-RAW-sou-womens-basketball-clara-robbins-DeNoiseAI-low-light.jpg\" alt=\"sou womens basketball clara robbins-DeNoiseAI-low-light\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clara Robbins<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At first glance at the brackets below, you&#8217;d think the SOU men are long shots and the women won&#8217;t have too much trouble moving past the first round. However, the seedings are based on biased coaches rather than any sort of objective rankings. Massey Ratings looks at strength of schedule, margin of victory, etc. to come up with its far-more-accurate rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Massey gives the Raider men a 36% chance of beating the #2 seed in the first round (which is a high percentage for a #15 playing on a #2&#8217;s home court) but gives the women just a 38% chance of getting past Wayland Baptist.<\/p>\n<p>Games begin on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/crop.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/crop.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-29161\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@SOURaiders @souraiders_wbb @SOUhoops @clara_robbins_ At first glance at the brackets below, you&#8217;d think the SOU men are long shots and the women won&#8217;t have too much trouble moving past the first round. However, the seedings are based on biased coaches rather than any sort of objective rankings. Massey Ratings looks at strength of schedule, margin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[127,1212,1092,245],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29159"}],"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=29159"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29170,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29159\/revisions\/29170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}