{"id":146,"date":"2005-01-25T20:13:50","date_gmt":"2005-01-26T02:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/?p=146"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T05:00:00","slug":"des-moines-seeks-to-host-ncaas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/w146\/des-moines-seeks-to-host-ncaas\/","title":{"rendered":"Des Moines Seeks To Host NCAAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcfcourier.com\/articles\/2005\/01\/25\/news\/breaking_news\/7a17b23a5bb97fa786256f94003f3bd2.txt \"target=\"blank\">From the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Events center seeks NCAA wrestling, women&#8217;s basketball tourneys <\/p>\n<p>DES MOINES (AP) &#8212; Officials of the new Iowa Events Center are bidding to host the NCAA Division I wrestling championships and a regional final of the NCAA women&#8217;s basketball tournament.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Essentially, our bids now help to put us in front of the NCAA as a venue possibility, &#8220;Andy Long, general manager of the Events Center, said of the first attempts to attract major collegiate sports events. &#8220;If we can land one of the bids, then we might be able to land something else down the road.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Long said officials hope to land the wrestling championships at Wells Fargo Arena between 2008 and 2011. He said the women&#8217;s tournament bid would be for 2007 or &#8217;08.<\/p>\n<p>Long said the bids would acquaint NCAA officials with the Events Center, which is scheduled to open this year, and increase the chances of landing other major NCAA-sponsored contests, such as first- and second-round men&#8217;s NCAA Tournament basketball games.<\/p>\n<p>The National Collegiate Athletic Association has scheduled men&#8217;s tournament venues through 2008 and hasn&#8217;t started taking bids for 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier Events center seeks NCAA wrestling, women&#8217;s basketball tourneys DES MOINES (AP) &#8212; Officials of the new Iowa Events Center are bidding to host the NCAA Division I wrestling championships and a regional final of the NCAA women&#8217;s basketball tournament. &#8220;Essentially, our bids now help to put us in front of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrestling"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B7Di-2m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}