{"id":5599,"date":"2014-12-11T10:30:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T16:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5599"},"modified":"2014-12-11T01:00:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T07:00:01","slug":"fool-me-three-times-shame-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/12\/fool-me-three-times-shame-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Fool me three times, shame on…?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDecember 6, 2012:<\/strong>\u00a0Cheerleaders and pom squads from both sides perform before the Iowa-ISU women’s basketball game.<\/em><\/p>\n

In 2010, with some decent hopes for the 16th-ranked ISU women’s basketball team, I went to Carver-Hawkeye Arena for the first time to see the in-state matchup with the 19th-ranked Hawkeyes.<\/p>\n

The Cyclone women put up their lowest point total of the season in a 62-40 blowout<\/a>, languished in the 20s in the polls for most of the rest of the season, and flamed out in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Marist.<\/p>\n

In 2012, after a successful defense of Hilton Coliseum the previous year, I went over to Iowa City again. But Chelsea Poppens was out from a concussion<\/a>, and the women again<\/em> put up their lowest point total of the season in a 50-42 loss<\/a> that could charitably be described as “sloppy”.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t going to go this year, but now that I’m embedded in Hawkeye country (and you weren’t before? -Ed.), <\/em>it’ll be easier to attend, and I can do that much. If it’s another eventual season-low score, though, I may have to stay away in the future, for the good of the team.<\/p>\n

The home team has won this matchup 12 of the past 13 years.<\/a>\u00a0This year, the Hawks are ranked 24th and ISU isn’t even receiving votes.<\/p>\n

Did you notice the ISU women\u00a0are not<\/em>\u00a0playing UNI this season? Bill Fennelly has been on record as favoring<\/a> in-state matchups, so it’s a very curious omission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

December 6, 2012:\u00a0Cheerleaders and pom squads from both sides perform before the Iowa-ISU women’s basketball game. In 2010, with some decent hopes for the 16th-ranked ISU women’s basketball team, I went to Carver-Hawkeye Arena for the first time to see … Continue reading →<\/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-5599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599","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=5599"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5608,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599\/revisions\/5608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}