{"id":21637,"date":"2013-03-25T14:29:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T18:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=21637"},"modified":"2013-03-25T14:30:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T18:30:37","slug":"eagles-soar-to-the-sweet-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/03\/eagles-soar-to-the-sweet-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles Soar to <br>the Sweet 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/eagles-soar-to-the-sweet-16\/fgcu-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21638\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21638\" title=\"fgcu 1\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/fgcu-1-300x165.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/fgcu-1-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/fgcu-1.png 554w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Cinderella, maybe? But it\u2019s clearly not imaginary about Florida Gulf Coast University, which Sunday night became the first No. 15 seed in NCAA history to punch its ticket to the Sweet 16.<\/p>\n<p>The high flying Eagles, who specialize in crowd pleasing dunks and other feats of athleticism, did it in style, running off 17 unanswered points midway through the second half to send San Diego State packing 81-71. As a result, Andy Enfield upstarts have earned a coveted date with Billy Donovan\u2019s Florida Gators on Friday at Texas Stadium.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDunk City is coming to Arlington [Texas],\u201d declared Bernard Thompson in the midst of the post-game media interrogation. \u201cSo everyone be ready.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FGCU Dunk City\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7MWGx0x25yo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cinderella, maybe? But it\u2019s clearly not imaginary about Florida Gulf Coast University, which Sunday night became the first No. 15 seed in NCAA history to punch its ticket to the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":21638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}