{"id":10801,"date":"2019-03-23T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=10801"},"modified":"2019-03-22T23:46:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T04:46:06","slug":"worst-basketball-day-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/worst-basketball-day-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Worst. Basketball. Day. Ever."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Drake_Missouri_WBB\"March 22, 2019:<\/strong> Drake’s Becca Hittner (arms up) turns after being whistled for a foul in the closing second of overtime against Missouri in Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes, I watched basketball in person Friday. No, Iowa State wasn’t involved. Yes, I saw one\u00a0conference player of the year\u00a0carry the team on her back<\/a> against a feisty 15-seed \u2014 and another conference player of the year<\/a> give it all she had against a 7-seed. No, I did not hear the end of the Iowa men’s game much past when Gary Dolphin’s substitute said “the good guys” had the lead. Yes, Drake’s Becca Hittner needs a hug after the end of that game<\/a>. No, I will not be rooting for anything in black and gold on Sunday. Yes, I consider this another “loss” for me against Carver-Hawkeye Arena<\/a>. No, I am not telling the side story that makes me look like more of an idiot than usual.<\/p>\n

Yes, I very much feared that this season’s ISU men’s team was too much like the 2014-15 team<\/a>, capable of both going deep and falling flat. No, flaming out in the second-to-last tipoff of the first round feels just as bad as flaming out in the second-to-first tipoff of the first round, except this time I watched Thursday’s games.<\/p>\n

Yes, the ISU women play today (with a conference player of the year BTW). No, I can’t go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March 22, 2019: Drake’s Becca Hittner (arms up) turns after being whistled for a foul in the closing second of overtime against Missouri in Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City. Yes, I watched basketball in person Friday. No, Iowa State wasn’t … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10803,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801\/revisions\/10803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}