{"id":4424,"date":"2014-01-22T11:29:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T17:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4424"},"modified":"2014-01-23T01:26:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T07:26:54","slug":"snakebit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/snakebit\/","title":{"rendered":"Snakebit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa State, Ohio State, Wisconsin, and Oregon started 58-0 this basketball season. They are a collective <del>0-13<\/del> 0-14 since. Not one of those teams has won in two weeks. ESPN blogger Eamonn Brennan <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/collegebasketballnation\/post\/_\/id\/92827\/game-plan-the-january-thaw?ex_cid=espnapi_public\">calls the plunge &#8220;fascinating.&#8221;<\/a> That is not the word I would use. <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/college-basketball\/news\/20140114\/ncaa-tournament-march-madness-arizona-wisconsin-syracuse-kentucky\/\">Luke Winn&#8217;s Magic Eight?<\/a> Try Magic 8-Ball.<\/p>\n<p>Scary parallel: Iowa State was undefeated and #9 in the country at midseason heading into Norman&#8230;just like the 2002 football team.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio State has the best slump-busting opportunity <del>tonight<\/del> Thursday at home vs. Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>(As for the ISU women, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20140121\/SPORTS020605\/301210168\/1091\/SPORTS02\/Cyclones-poor-shooting-again-an-issue-OU-loss\">we may have to move up to full-fledged exorcism<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: I erred on Ohio State&#8217;s next game date, and <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/basketball\/ncaa\/men\/gameflash\/2014\/01\/22\/90069\/index.html#recap\">Wisconsin lost again.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa State, Ohio State, Wisconsin, and Oregon started 58-0 this basketball season. They are a collective 0-13 0-14 since. Not one of those teams has won in two weeks. ESPN blogger Eamonn Brennan calls the plunge &#8220;fascinating.&#8221; That is not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/snakebit\/\">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-4424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424","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=4424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4433,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions\/4433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}