{"id":24468,"date":"2013-09-26T12:43:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T16:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=24468"},"modified":"2013-09-26T12:46:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T16:46:36","slug":"raiders-predicted-to-be-basketball-bracket-buster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/09\/26\/raiders-predicted-to-be-basketball-bracket-buster\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders predicted to be basketball bracket buster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19664\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/03\/10\/dixon-buzzer-beater-lifts-mens-basketball-to-horizon-league-championship-game\/jonathan-mianophotographerweb-jonathanmia\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19664\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19664\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19664\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2013\/03\/wrightstate_detroit_01-700x474.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"311\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wright State players celebrate their 56-54 semi-final win over Detroit in the Horizon League Basketball Men&#039;s Championship semifinal Saturday, March 9, 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The national sports media is beginning to share the optimism of Wright State men\u2019s basketball fans looking forward to the 2013\u201314 season.<\/p>\n<p><em>USA Today<\/em> listed the Raiders among five mid-majors with \u201cbracket-busting potential\u201d in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ncaab\/2013\/09\/25\/starting-five-mid-majors-with-bracket-busting-potential\/2866221\/\">this Sept. 25 article<\/a>. The article noted Wright State is expected to return the top nine scorers from a team that won 23 games a year ago. That list also included Harvard, Denver, New Mexico State and Elon.<\/p>\n<p><em>USA Today<\/em> also listed Wright State at No. 52 among the 68 teams expected to qualify for the NCAA tournament in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ncaab\/2013\/08\/29\/college-basketball-countdown-no-52-wright-state\/2726091\/\">this article<\/a>. The article predicts a No. 13 tournament seed for the Raiders.<\/p>\n<p>Many other national publications are picking the Raiders to take part in March Madness, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegesportsmadness.com\/article\/7081\">College Sports Madness<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nycbuckets.com\/2013\/09\/three-bold-horizon-league-predictions\/\">Big Apple Buckets<\/a>, the <em>Blue Ribbon Yearbook<\/em>, <em>Sporting News<\/em>, and <em>Lindy\u2019s Sports<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders host the University of Findlay in an exhibition game Nov. 1. The home and regular-season opener is Nov. 10 against Mount St. Joseph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national sports media is beginning to share the optimism of Wright State men\u2019s basketball fans looking forward to the 2013\u201314 season. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/09\/26\/raiders-predicted-to-be-basketball-bracket-buster\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":19664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,715,719],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news","category-special-categories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24468"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24477,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24468\/revisions\/24477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}