{"id":5525,"date":"2014-11-17T19:58:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T01:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5525"},"modified":"2014-11-17T19:58:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T01:58:54","slug":"a-moment-of-sanity-in-playoff-nomenclature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/a-moment-of-sanity-in-playoff-nomenclature\/","title":{"rendered":"A moment of sanity in playoff nomenclature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NCAA has relented on its attempts to manipulate the style of the rounds of 64 and 32 in the men&#8217;s tournament. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcci.com\/news\/des-moines-to-host-new-2016-ncaa-basketball-event\/29773540\">The first and second rounds WILL BE the <em>first and second rounds<\/em><\/a>\u00a0starting in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, but some of those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/sports\/columnists\/bryce-miller\/2014\/11\/17\/des-moines-ncaa-tournament-mens-basketball\/19169811\/\">first- and second-round games will be held in Des Moines<\/a> for the first time in men&#8217;s tournament history in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NCAA has relented on its attempts to manipulate the style of the rounds of 64 and 32 in the men&#8217;s tournament. The first and second rounds WILL BE the first and second rounds\u00a0starting in 2016. Not only that, but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/a-moment-of-sanity-in-playoff-nomenclature\/\">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-5525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525","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=5525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5527,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525\/revisions\/5527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}