{"id":2187,"date":"2007-04-10T21:53:59","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T04:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/04\/10\/the-rutgers-womens-basketball-team\/"},"modified":"2007-04-10T21:53:59","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T04:53:59","slug":"the-rutgers-womens-basketball-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/04\/10\/the-rutgers-womens-basketball-team\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rutgers Women&#8217;s Basketball Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the record, the Rutgers women&#8217;s basketball team ended the season with a 12-4 Big East conference record, enough to give them a second seed in the Big East Tournament.\u00c2\u00a0 There, they rolled through three Conference tournament victories to win the Conference Title against UCONN &#8212; which earned them a 4-seed in the NCAA Women&#8217;s Basketball Tournament, which included a thrilling edge-on-the-seat one point victory against top seeded Duke in the regional semi-finals.\u00c2\u00a0 They lost to Tennessee,\u00c2\u00a0 putting up a valiant effort that showed there was no quit in them by pulling back into the game in the second half before running out of steam.<\/p>\n<p>Do I care?\u00c2\u00a0 Not particularly.\u00c2\u00a0 If I cared a bit more I&#8217;d dredge up the personal stories of the players, who deserve a better than the focus of attention that, in one manner or other, was deflected onto them by Don Imus&#8217;s Archie-Bunkerisms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the record, the Rutgers women&#8217;s basketball team ended the season with a 12-4 Big East conference record, enough to give them a second seed in the Big East Tournament.\u00c2\u00a0 There, they rolled through three Conference tournament victories to win the Conference Title against UCONN &#8212; which earned them a 4-seed in the NCAA Women&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}