{"id":11929,"date":"2020-03-02T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11929"},"modified":"2020-03-01T00:18:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T06:18:15","slug":"movie-highlights-six-on-six-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/movie-highlights-six-on-six-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie highlights six-on-six basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nJuly 7, 2015:<\/strong> The New Providence “Roundhouse” gym.<\/em><\/p>\n

A fictionalized take of a six-on-six girls’ basketball team in the final year of that sport’s existence in Iowa has been turned into a film.<\/p>\n

The Des Moines Register<\/em> says the film is called “New Providence”<\/a> and the filmmaker was involved in using the school when it was closed.<\/p>\n

Notice the word “fictionalized” up there, because there’s a significant change for the film: New Providence hasn’t existed as its own school district since 1980, when it merged with Eldora. In 1993, the school was being used as Eldora-New Providence Middle School.\u00a0The gym is authentically 1930s, but the school building in front of it was torn down in 2012.<\/p>\n

The actual Eldora-New Providence girls’ basketball team lost in the postseason to eventual state champion Hubbard-Radcliffe. The Register<\/em>\u00a0says Lisa Brinkmeyer, who played on that Hubbard-Radcliffe team, then at Drake, and later worked for the IGHSAU will be in this movie as a coach.<\/p>\n

That said, and this being girls’ state basketball week, this is still a cool concept for a movie. (It’s not Robert John Ford’s musical take, which is fun in its own way.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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