{"id":1148,"date":"2008-03-16T18:44:50","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T23:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/03\/16\/georgia-improbable-sec-champions\/"},"modified":"2008-03-16T18:44:50","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T23:44:50","slug":"georgia-improbable-sec-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/03\/16\/georgia-improbable-sec-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia improbable SEC Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, throw me on the bandwagon.\u00a0 I do not really follow college basketball, at least not until it is time for tournament season.\u00a0 Georgia\u2019s SEC experience should have been one and done.\u00a0 This year the Bulldogs managed to win four times in SEC play, so I certainly was not expecting much.\u00a0 Instead, Georgia managed to take out Mississippi 97-95 in OT, followed by back-to-back Saturday wins over Kentucky (64-60) and Mississippi State (64-60).<\/p>\n<p>Georgia was forced to double up on Saturday because a tornado damaged the Georgia Dome, postponing their game, forcing the SEC to move to the bumble bees\u2019 arena (that would be GA Tech for those of you keeping score at home). \u00a0 Who knew the Bulldogs had it in them to win twice in one day?\u00a0 Today they followed up Saturday\u2019s minor miracle with a nice with over Arkansas, which propelled the Dawgs to SEC Champs, and surely spoiled the hopes of some poor team sitting on the bubble.<\/p>\n<p>So Georgia makes the NCAA Tournament with a 17-16 record (4-10 SEC), but they equaled their SEC win total in the last four days.\u00a0 I guess this is why they call it March Madness.<\/p>\n<p>Next up is Xavier, in theory, the top team in the Atlantic 10, but unlike Georgia, they did not win their conference tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Go Dawgs!<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, throw me on the bandwagon.\u00a0 I do not really follow college basketball, at least not until it is time for tournament season.\u00a0 Georgia\u2019s SEC experience should have been one and done.\u00a0 This year the Bulldogs managed to win four times in SEC play, so I certainly was not expecting much.\u00a0 Instead, Georgia managed to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/03\/16\/georgia-improbable-sec-champions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Georgia improbable SEC Champions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}