{"id":1361,"date":"2018-03-31T16:24:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T16:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2018-03-31T16:24:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T16:24:36","slug":"congratulations-to-notre-dame-and-mississippi-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1361","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Notre Dame and Mississippi State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And heartbreak becomes deja vu for the Connecticut Huskies.\u00a0 \u00a0Obviously, UConn has been for a long time continued the elite program in women&#8217;s college basketball, but having this happen in back to back season is rough.<\/p>\n<p>For those that don&#8217;t remember, last year, the dominating Huskies had a 111 game winning streak going into the Final Four &#8211; where they faced Mississippi State.\u00a0 Surprisingly, the game ended up going to overtime.\u00a0 But then the dagger hit when Morgan William hit a jumper at the buzzer in overtime to give the Bulldogs a 66-64 win.<\/p>\n<p>Since that moment, all the Huskies did was create a new winning streak.\u00a0 \u00a0They were 36-0 coming into last night&#8217;s Final Four game against Notre Dame.\u00a0 \u00a0And while the team was different, the outcome was the same.\u00a0 Connecticut made an amazing 5 point comeback with 21 seconds left to force overtime, but their painful memories from last year were renewed as the Irish got the ball in a tie game with 29 seconds left in overtime, and with the clock running down, Arike Ogunbowale hit a jumper to give the Irish a 91-89 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Notre Dame will play for the championship against Mississippi State (who also won their Final Four game in overtime against Louisville).\u00a0 \u00a0And for the second year in a row, UConn is left wondering how their undefeated season was ended in overtime in the Final Four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And heartbreak becomes deja vu for the Connecticut Huskies.\u00a0 \u00a0Obviously, UConn has been for a long time continued the elite program in women&#8217;s college basketball, but having this happen in back to back season is rough. For those that don&#8217;t remember, last year, the dominating Huskies had a 111 game winning streak going into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}