{"id":1628,"date":"2010-10-14T08:24:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T14:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2010-10-14T08:24:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T14:24:15","slug":"twis-the-proliferation-of-upsets-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/twis-the-proliferation-of-upsets-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"T*W*I*S: The Proliferation of Upsets Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gamecock Nation Shines\u00a0During a Wild Week of\u00a0Bewildering Wins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/So-Carolina-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1630\" title=\"So Carolina 2\" src=\"\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/So-Carolina-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a>Last week no sooner had we honored the seven big football upsets by FCS schools over FBS schools this fall\u00a0when a whole passel of underdogs rose up to get theirs.\u00a0 Were they jealous?\u00a0 Makes sense to us.\u00a0 Who wouldn&#8217;t want to be named to the T*W*I*S growing list of honorees?\u00a0 So, to make things fair and all that, here&#8217;s tipping our caps to\u00a0the Davids, at least the ones we know about, who overcame the hype, the odds, the radio talk-show trash-talk (say that five times fast), and the over confident favorites&#8217; now befuddled fans:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>South Carolina&#8217;s Gamecocks had two huge upsets last weekend &#8212; in football over top-ranked and widely-believed unbeatable Bama, the University of Alabama&#8217;s Crimson Tide, and in men&#8217;s soccer the twentieth-ranked Gamecocks upset #5 Tulsa, proving that there really are two USC&#8217;s.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In women&#8217;s ice hockey, North Dakota shocked top-ranked Minnesota-Duluth.<\/li>\n<li>In men&#8217;s DI water polo,\u00a0#4 Stanford downed #1 USC, er, Southern California, while Cal doused #2 UCLA.<\/li>\n<li>In women&#8217;s DI volleyball,\u00a0\u00a0#12 UCLA stunned top-\u00a0ranked Stanford while #18 Michigan slammed #6 Illinois.<\/li>\n<li>In men&#8217;s ice hockey, tenth-ranked New Hampshire blew away #3 Miami Ohio.<\/li>\n<li>And, there must be more out there.\u00a0 If you know of one, clue us in&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamecock Nation Shines\u00a0During a Wild Week of\u00a0Bewildering Wins Last week no sooner had we honored the seven big football upsets by FCS schools over FBS schools this fall\u00a0when a whole passel of underdogs rose up to get theirs.\u00a0 Were they jealous?\u00a0 Makes sense to us.\u00a0 Who wouldn&#8217;t want to be named to the T*W*I*S growing &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/twis-the-proliferation-of-upsets-continues\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}