{"id":896,"date":"2017-03-17T08:44:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T13:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/?p=896"},"modified":"2017-03-21T08:28:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T13:28:34","slug":"2017-conference-usa-postseason-week-1-round-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/2017\/03\/17\/2017-conference-usa-postseason-week-1-round-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Conference USA Postseason Week 1 Round 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 174<\/p><h5>Check back for more updates as Round 2 games become final and future matches are set!<\/h5>\n<h3>Men&#8217;s Basketball<\/h3>\n<h4>NCAA Tournament<\/h4>\n<p>(12) MTSU 65<br \/>\n<strong>(4) Butler 74<\/strong><br \/>\nFinal<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How sweet it is!<\/p>\n<p>No. 4 Butler beats No. 12 Middle Tennessee, 74-65, to advance to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sweet16?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Sweet16<\/a> for first time since 2011. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MarchMadness?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MarchMadness<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rOsWAH6ILJ\">pic.twitter.com\/rOsWAH6ILJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCAA March Madness (@MarchMadnessMBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarchMadnessMBB\/status\/843269685743443968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<h4>CIT<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Utah Valley 85<\/strong><br \/>\nRice 79<br \/>\nFinal<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rice falls to Utah Valley, 85-79, in CBI Quarterfinals <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RiceRising?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RiceRising<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dvrxJGYgcL\">https:\/\/t.co\/dvrxJGYgcL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GHYkFrKwZs\">pic.twitter.com\/GHYkFrKwZs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rice Men\u2019s Basketball (@RiceMBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RiceMBB\/status\/844046823002198023?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<h3>Women&#8217;s Basketball<\/h3>\n<h4>NIT<\/h4>\n<p>Wake Forest 66<br \/>\n<strong>Middle Tennessee 73<\/strong><br \/>\nFinal<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FINAL: Middle Tennessee holds off Wake Forest 73-66 and advances to Round 3 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WNIT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WNIT<\/a>.  Will play the GeorgiaTech \/ UCF winner.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WNIT (@WomensNIT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WomensNIT\/status\/843568562186977281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Middle Tennessee will face Georgia Tech at 7:00 PM ET on Thursday, March 23rd.<\/p>\n<h4>WBI<\/h4>\n<p>UT Rio Grande Valley 63<br \/>\n<strong>Rice 73<\/strong><br \/>\nFinal<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#39;re moving on to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PostseasonWBI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PostseasonWBI<\/a> final 4! The Owls take down UTRGV 73-63 and will await the winner of Idaho\/E. Washington. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RELENTLESS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RELENTLESS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RkJ53gPY2W\">pic.twitter.com\/RkJ53gPY2W<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rice Women\u2019s Basketball (@RiceWBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RiceWBB\/status\/843572096450072578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Rice advances to the Final Four of the Women&#8217;s Basketball Invitational to face off against Idaho Thursday, March 23rd at 7:00 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Men&#8217;s Basketball side, Middle Tennessee was eliminated from the NCAA Tournament by Butler 74-65 on Saturday. Rice fell to Utah Valley 85-79 on Monday and was eliminated in the CIT. On the Women&#8217;s Basketball side, Middle Tennessee defeated Wake Forest 73-66 in the WNIT on Sunday to advance to play Georgia Tech in Round 3 on Thursday, March 23rd at 7:00 PM ET; and Rice defeated UT Rio Grande Valley in the WBI on Sunday 73-63 and advances to the WBI Final Four. Rice will face off against Idaho in the semi-finals on Thursday, March 23rd at 7:00 PM CT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-cusa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9ebqr-es","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntsportsstats.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}