{"id":898,"date":"2004-11-04T22:12:01","date_gmt":"2004-11-05T04:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/singin-the-blues\/"},"modified":"2004-11-04T22:12:01","modified_gmt":"2004-11-05T04:12:01","slug":"singin-the-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/singin-the-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Singin&#8217; the Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know it&#8217;s November 3rd, and I know that Northern Kentucky regularly churns out one of the best D2 teams in the country, but can&#8217;t we read something into the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nku.edu\/~athletics\/mbbukynov3story4k04.htm\">NKU made it close against #9 Kentucky<\/a> for 27 minutes tonight?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s ridiculous to read anything into an exhibition game, but it&#8217;s not ridiculous to point out that losing an experienced backcourt is a recipe for failing to meet high expectations. NKU challenges Cincinnati on Monday and Ohio State on Tuesday. It will be interesting to see how those contests turn out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know it&#8217;s November 3rd, and I know that Northern Kentucky regularly churns out one of the best D2 teams in the country, but can&#8217;t we read something into the fact that NKU made it close against #9 Kentucky for 27 minutes tonight? It&#8217;s ridiculous to read anything into an exhibition game, but it&#8217;s not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}