{"id":3950,"date":"2011-03-21T06:09:01","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T10:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3950"},"modified":"2011-03-21T12:06:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T16:06:41","slug":"morning-read-a-north-country-sweet-sixteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/03\/21\/morning-read-a-north-country-sweet-sixteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  A North Country Sweet Sixteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone in the In Box community must know whether or not we&#8217;ve ever had a North Country athlete in the Sweet Sixteen round of the NCAA basketball tournament.<\/p>\n<p>If we have, I don&#8217;t know about it.\u00a0 But that&#8217;s all changing this week, after Queensbury&#8217;s Jimmer Fredette lifted the BYU Cougars past 11th-seeded Gonzaga.<\/p>\n<p>Fredette knocked down an astonishing 34 points.\u00a0 This from the <a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/sports\/article_82d6f790-52b2-11e0-bc23-001cc4c002e0.html\">Associated Press via the Glens Falls Post Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHe can shoot it from anywhere, as soon as he steps on the floor,\u201d said Gonzaga\u2019s Steven Gray, now on the long list of guards who couldn\u2019t stop Fredette.<\/p>\n<p>BYU (32-4) will make its deepest trip in the NCAA tournament since 1981, the year Danny Ainge went coast to coast against Notre Dame for a last-second game-winner \u2014 a play that still holds a special place in the school\u2019s rich sports history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The question now is whether Fredette&#8217;s teammates can give him enough lift to battle past the Florida Gators.\u00a0 A lot of people are <a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/640905-ncaa-tournament-2011-picks-and-predictions-for-the-sweet-16\/entry\/55128-ncaa-tournament-sweet-16-will-jimmer-fredette-carry-byu-over-florida\">putting their money on Florida<\/a>, but Fredette&#8217;s been confounding expectations all year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone in the In Box community must know whether or not we&#8217;ve ever had a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5652,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}