{"id":3134,"date":"2013-03-24T14:25:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T19:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=3134"},"modified":"2013-03-25T00:01:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T05:01:07","slug":"false-hope-is-worse-than-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/false-hope-is-worse-than-death\/","title":{"rendered":"False hope is worse than death."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/sports\/article\/No-2-Ohio-State-beats-Iowa-State-78-75-on-late-3-4380465.php\">Ohio State 78, Iowa State 75.<\/a>\u00a0ISU had a 13-point comeback and played the entire second half without Chris Babb.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20130324\/SPORTS020604\/130324006\/Cyclone-heartbreaker-Iowa-State-falls-to-Ohio-State?Frontpage\">Register link.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/thegazette.com\/2013\/03\/24\/crafts-game-winner-with-00-2-left-beats-cyclones\/\">Gazette link.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know games like this don&#8217;t happen just to Iowa State, but they always happen to Iowa State. Tomorrow is the anniversary of the Michigan State game and the <em>blarge<\/em>. Tom Izzo has acknowledged that game as being the de facto championship in the 2000 tournament.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Nominee for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hlas\/status\/315891518588198912\">most ill-timed sports tweet of the year<\/a>, and the follow-up <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hlas\/status\/315892408015532032\">three minutes later<\/a>:<br \/>\n<em>Mike Hlas @Hlas<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Iowa State cannot say the officiating hurt it today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>OK, for 38.5 minutes Iowa State cannot say officiating hurt it today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rushthecourt.net\/2013\/03\/24\/the-big-picture-implications-of-iowa-states-loss\/\">This writeup from Rush the Court<\/a>\u00a0is a good exploration of the &#8220;big picture implications&#8221; of the loss on the ISU program.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, a team predicted to finish eighth in the Big 12 finished fifth and then took the second-place team in the Big Ten down to the wire. ISU was one of the 32 best teams in the country, and we can be proud of that much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio State 78, Iowa State 75.\u00a0ISU had a 13-point comeback and played the entire second half without Chris Babb. Register link. Gazette link. I know games like this don&#8217;t happen just to Iowa State, but they always happen to Iowa &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/false-hope-is-worse-than-death\/\">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-3134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134","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=3134"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3138,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions\/3138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}