{"id":3202,"date":"2013-04-10T10:03:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T15:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=3202"},"modified":"2013-04-10T01:30:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T06:30:19","slug":"state-of-iowa-2-3-in-espns-ultimate-bracket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/state-of-iowa-2-3-in-espns-ultimate-bracket\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Iowa 2-3 in ESPN&#8217;s Ultimate Bracket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/ncb\/feature\/ultimatebracket\">ESPN picked the 63 best NCAA games<\/a> organized by seed matchup\/round-of-X and each Iowa team is represented. ISU&#8217;s win over Miami of Ohio in 1986 is the surprise guest here, an 81-79 overtime win on Jeff Hornacek&#8217;s last-second shot. UNI&#8217;s upset of Kansas in 2010 is here as well. The three losses, of course, are Iowa State&#8217;s, Iowa&#8217;s, and Drake&#8217;s worst first-round appearances of all time.<\/p>\n<p>As one of now seven 15-over-2 games, Hampton keeps on haunting: &#8220;This game embodied the David vs. Goliath theme that attracts so many sports fans to college basketball in March.&#8221; Because when you hear about a basketball Goliath, you think about a team that has been to the Sweet 16 three times in its entire history.<\/p>\n<p>(The best part of the Ultimate Bracket? Kansas loses three times.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN picked the 63 best NCAA games organized by seed matchup\/round-of-X and each Iowa team is represented. ISU&#8217;s win over Miami of Ohio in 1986 is the surprise guest here, an 81-79 overtime win on Jeff Hornacek&#8217;s last-second shot. UNI&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/state-of-iowa-2-3-in-espns-ultimate-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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202","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=3202"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3204,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions\/3204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}