{"id":12239,"date":"2020-07-31T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12239"},"modified":"2020-07-30T21:23:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T02:23:21","slug":"the-private-bracket-and-the-not-quite-public-bracket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/the-private-bracket-and-the-not-quite-public-bracket\/","title":{"rendered":"The private bracket and the not-quite-public bracket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/private-schools-dominate-1a-basketball-field\/\">second time in two school years<\/a>, 2020-related asterisks notwithstanding, a state tournament for Iowa&#8217;s smallest class has involved five private schools. An entire side in the Class 1A baseball tournament was a private playoff, with Mason City Newman coming out of there in its 12th straight season of state baseball in search of a fourth title in a row. Don Bosco upset one team and took advantage of an upset on the other side of the bracket in its fourth state appearance in five years.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we have an all-private title game, evening the score at 29-29 for private-public Class 1A championship participants since the end of Norway baseball. The IHSAA does not consider this to be a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time in two school years, 2020-related asterisks notwithstanding, a state tournament for Iowa&#8217;s smallest class has involved five private schools. An entire side in the Class 1A baseball tournament was a private playoff, with Mason City Newman &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/the-private-bracket-and-the-not-quite-public-bracket\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-12239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12239","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=12239"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12255,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12239\/revisions\/12255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}