{"id":1192,"date":"2005-03-26T08:04:33","date_gmt":"2005-03-26T08:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2005-03-26T08:04:33","modified_gmt":"2005-03-26T08:04:33","slug":"winning_ugly_wi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1192","title":{"rendered":"Winning Ugly &#8211; Wisconsin Badgers vs. N.C. State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first half was rather difficult to watch.  Someone mentioned that the game reminded him of the Bennett era game vs. Southwest Missouri State.   Commentary around the country:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A2036-2005Mar25.html\">Ivan Carter<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><i> If James Naismith had been around to witness Wisconsin&#8217;s 65-56 region semifinal victory over North Carolina State on Friday night, he might have wished he had invented something other than basketball.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/03\/26\/sports\/ncaabasketball\/26wisconsin.html?ex=1269493200&#038;en=db6a7492fdc10671&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">Joe LaPointe<\/a><br \/>\n<blockquote><p><i>Explaining his team&#8217;s strategy for coping with Hodge, Ryan said: &#8220;You show respect, and then you play. Make him go right a little bit. Make him go left a little bit. I really liked our help defense. We kept him from getting to the rim.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li>Herb Sendek <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsaudio.net\/ram_files\/college_hoops\/nc_state\/sendek01.ram\">Remarks<\/a><br \/>\n<blockquote><p><i><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/sports\/college\/2005ncaa\/story\/2253399p-8633609c.html\">Roger Van Der Horst<\/a><br \/>\n<blockquote><p><i>This was supposed to have been a renaissance for college basketball in the Triangle, and for a week it was just that, a time when once again all three of its major men&#8217;s basketball teams &#8212; Duke, N.C. State and North Carolina &#8212; were playing deep into the NCAA Tournament. For Duke and State, those sweet few days ended with a thud Friday night, courtesy of two methodical, strong, defensive-minded Big Ten teams.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/?ned=us&amp;ncl=http:\/\/www.wrn.com\/gestalt\/go.cfm%3Fobjectid%3D8D144C40-3E50-47B0-981236821BE617C4%26dbtranslator%3Dlocal.cfm&amp;hl=en\">Google News<\/a> (lots of links)<\/ul>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ed Cone is <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0107946\/2005\/03\/26.html\">pleased<\/a> that one ACC team survived.  Rather unusual for 3 Big Ten teams to make it this far, with only UNC left from the ACC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first half was rather difficult to watch. Someone mentioned that the game reminded him of the Bennett era game vs. Southwest Missouri State. Commentary around the country: Ivan Carter: If James Naismith had been around to witness Wisconsin&#8217;s 65-56 region semifinal victory over North Carolina State on Friday night, he might have wished he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}