{"id":5834,"date":"2015-03-02T10:10:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T16:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5834"},"modified":"2015-02-24T02:29:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T08:29:16","slug":"private-schools-make-up-half-of-2a-girls-state-basketball-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/private-schools-make-up-half-of-2a-girls-state-basketball-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Private schools make up half of 2A girls&#8217; state basketball field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four private schools in Class 2A, including defending champion Iowa City Regina, made the<a href=\"http:\/\/ighsau.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1A2A3A.pdf\"> 2015 Iowa state girls&#8217; basketball tournament<\/a>. All but one of those games are today, following Class 1A in the morning and afternoon. (Colo-NESCO tipped off against Newell-Fonda as this post went live.)<\/p>\n<p>There is another factor to be noted:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ighsau.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1415BedsNumerical.pdf\">Based on the BEDS numbers<\/a>*, seven of the eight state participants are among the largest 25 teams of the class. North-Linn is the outlier. Cascade and Unity Christian are the second- and fourth-largest schools in the class, respectively. Last year, Unity Christian was instead the <em>smallest 3A school <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsspotlight.com\/high-school.cfm\/Article\/High-School\/MOC_Floyd-Valley-Edges-Unity-Christian-63_57-for-Class-3A-Crown\/2014-3-8\/0\">but finished as the state runner-up<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 and this year&#8217;s 3A bracket has no private schools in it.<\/p>\n<p>*Tipton was in the 3A postseason and Clarion-Goldfield-Dows was in the 2A postseason, so that must be where the dividing line is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four private schools in Class 2A, including defending champion Iowa City Regina, made the 2015 Iowa state girls&#8217; basketball tournament. All but one of those games are today, following Class 1A in the morning and afternoon. (Colo-NESCO tipped off against &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/private-schools-make-up-half-of-2a-girls-state-basketball-field\/\">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":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5834","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=5834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5836,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5834\/revisions\/5836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}