{"id":2899,"date":"2013-01-22T13:35:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T19:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2013-01-22T13:35:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T19:35:32","slug":"the-nicl-bracket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/the-nicl-bracket\/","title":{"rendered":"The NICL bracket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ighsau.org\/IGHSAUwebsite\/132aregional.html\">The girls&#8217; basketball pairings are out<\/a>, and for the first time, North Tama is in the postseason as a 2A team. This is the only time of the year it matters, since the regular season is played in conferences and all teams are plugged into a postseason bracket. There&#8217;s still a third of a season left to go, but a so-far losing record and class bump make a return to the state tournament doubtful.<\/p>\n<p>Ten of the 12 teams in Region 3 are members of the North Iowa Cedar League, which North Tama left a decade(!) ago because its enrollment was lagging compared to the rest. The other two are NT and Iowa Valley, which is in the South Iowa Cedar League.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ighsau.org\/general\/2012013BedsNumerical.pdf\">Based on the BEDS numbers<\/a>, North Tama is the 10th-smallest Class 2A girls&#8217; basketball school, six above the cutoff. North Mahaska, last year&#8217;s Class 1A champion, is second-smallest, and along with NT is in the awkward position of being in Class 2A girls&#8217; basketball and Class A football simultaneously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The girls&#8217; basketball pairings are out, and for the first time, North Tama is in the postseason as a 2A team. This is the only time of the year it matters, since the regular season is played in conferences and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/the-nicl-bracket\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-tama-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899","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=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2900,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions\/2900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}