{"id":1990,"date":"2021-03-22T01:28:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T01:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1990"},"modified":"2021-03-22T01:28:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T01:28:57","slug":"heartbreak-for-rutgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1990","title":{"rendered":"Heartbreak for Rutgers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rutgers was pulling the big-time upset of #2 Houston.  They were up 58-49 with 5 minutes to play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, Houston went on a 14-2 run to finish the game and come back for a 63-60 win.  Down 2, Houston&#8217;s DeJon Jarreau missed his shot, but Tramon Mark rebounded the ball, went back up strong, gets fouled and still makes the basket.  Then, Mark hits the free throw to take a 1 point lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rutgers had a couple chances to tie &#8211; but Geo Baker lost the ball on the first drive.  And then after Marcus Sasser hit two free throws to extend the lead to 3 with 9 seconds, Rutgers last ditch three-point shot missed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Houston survived and advanced.  And heartbreak for Rutgers &#8211; this is one of the best seasons they have had in a very long time &#8211; so hate to see it end like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rutgers was pulling the big-time upset of #2 Houston. They were up 58-49 with 5 minutes to play. Then, Houston went on a 14-2 run to finish the game and come back for a 63-60 win. Down 2, Houston&#8217;s DeJon Jarreau missed his shot, but Tramon Mark rebounded the ball, went back up strong, gets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2021-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990","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=1990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}