{"id":3111,"date":"2013-03-18T09:59:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T14:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2013-03-18T10:58:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T15:58:06","slug":"isu-notre-dame-in-ncaa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/isu-notre-dame-in-ncaa-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"ISU-Notre Dame in NCAA Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not a football game, but it&#8217;s still ultra-rare: For the second time ever, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20130317\/SPORTS020604\/130317006\/?odyssey=nav|head\">Iowa State and Notre Dame will play each other in basketball<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20130317\/SPORTS\/303180044\/Bryce-Miller-Five-storylines-to-consider-at-bracket-time\">The only other meeting was in 1979, which #5 ND won in South Bend 87-77.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It took a <a href=\"http:\/\/amestrib.com\/sections\/sports\/isu-cyclones\/la-gesse-column-waiting-game-consumes-cyclones-during-tourney-selection\">really, really long time<\/a> during the selection show for ISU to be announced, in the bottom half of the last quadrant.<\/p>\n<p>Should Iowa State win in Dayton, it would be the fourth time in five appearances that the Cyclones would play a highly ranked team in its home state, in this case Ohio State.<\/p>\n<p>The Iowa State-Notre Dame game will be one of the last of the first round with an 8:45 tipoff Friday. The CBS A-team \u2014 Jim Nantz, Clark Kellogg, and Tracy Wolfson \u2014 will be calling it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not a football game, but it&#8217;s still ultra-rare: For the second time ever, Iowa State and Notre Dame will play each other in basketball. The only other meeting was in 1979, which #5 ND won in South Bend 87-77. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/isu-notre-dame-in-ncaa-tournament\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111","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=3111"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3116,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions\/3116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}