{"id":3228,"date":"2015-03-28T10:16:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T15:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/mens-d3-blog\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2015-03-28T10:16:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T15:16:22","slug":"picking-the-championship-final-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2015\/03\/28\/picking-the-championship-final-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Picking the championship final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s here &#8211; the 2015 national title game.<\/p>\n<p>So who hoists the hardware at the end of Saturday night?<\/p>\n<p>Only one of our columnists will get bragging rights later this evening.<\/p>\n<h4>Dan Hickling<\/h4>\n<p><b>Trinity 5, Wisconsin-Stevens Point 4<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Bantams bring the championship back East for the first time in five years.<\/p>\n<h4>Brian Lester<\/h4>\n<p><b>Wisconsin-Stevens Point 5, Trinity 4<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Stevens Point will finish the job it started and win the national title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s here &#8211; the 2015 national title game. So who hoists the hardware at the end of Saturday night? Only one of our columnists will get bragging rights later this evening. Dan Hickling Trinity 5, Wisconsin-Stevens Point 4 The Bantams bring the championship back East for the first time in five years. Brian Lester Wisconsin-Stevens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1425],"tags":[1469,1470],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Picking the championship final - College Hockey | USCHO.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It&#039;s here - the 2015 national title game. So who hoists the hardware at the end of Saturday night? 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