{"id":13976,"date":"2022-03-25T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=13976"},"modified":"2022-03-24T23:24:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T04:24:23","slug":"absolutely-totally-not-a-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/03\/absolutely-totally-not-a-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Absolutely, totally not a conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" 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href=\"https:\/\/www.thegazette.com\/cyclone-basketball\/cyclones-transfers-got-their-train-turned-around-and-on-the-sweet-16-track\/\">column<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Only one of those three has their teams playing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/article\/iowa-state-cyclone-conundrum-men-women-play-at-the-same-time-on-friday\/39503963#\">in overlapping time frames<\/a> \u2014 and it&#8217;s happened in every round of the tournaments. It takes a lot of things to happen for that to happen, and yet somehow it has. But it&#8217;s better <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/espn\/print?id=33558576&amp;type=Story&amp;imagesPrint=off\">than the alternative<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>The men&#8217;s game \u2014 Cyclones vs. Hurricanes in the Windy City, as others have pointed out \u2014 is late in Chicago presumably because it&#8217;s a matchup of double-digit seeds. But why in the world doesn&#8217;t it start until &#8220;8:59&#8221; Central Time? No basketball game should tip off after 8 PM local, and honestly anything after 7 is ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>The women&#8217;s game vs. Creighton is decidedly an undercard to the other matchup \u2014 North Carolina vs. South Carolina, being played in North Carolina \u2014 but has the later (8:30 CT) tipoff tonight.<\/p>\n<p>The NCAA has no control over tip times, nor do athletic departments. CBS\/Turner and ESPN certainly aren&#8217;t in cahoots with a goal of making things difficult for ISU fans.<\/p>\n<p>Or so they&#8217;d have us believe. (No collusion! No collusion!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are three universities with both men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s teams in the Sweet 16: Michigan, North Carolina, and \u2014 for the first time since 2000 \u2014 Iowa State. Gazette stories: MBB, MBB notebook, WBB, WBB notebook, column. 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