{"id":22943,"date":"2008-03-28T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/03\/28\/the-most-academically-elite-team-in-college-basketball-in-quest-for-their-first-conference-win-in-21-years\/"},"modified":"2008-03-28T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T10:00:01","slug":"the-most-academically-elite-team-in-college-basketball-in-quest-for-their-first-conference-win-in-21-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080328-01\/?p=22943","title":{"rendered":"The most academically elite team in college basketball, in quest for their first conference win in 21 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quantumhoops.com\/\"> <i>Quantum Hoops<\/i><\/a> is a new documentary which follows the college basketball program at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caltech.edu\/\"> California Institute of Technology<\/a> through its 2007&ndash;2008 season. The school is regularly honored as one of the finest academic colleges in the United States. Their basketball team, on the other hand, is not as well-honored. It has won two conference games in the last 35&nbsp;years. Their last victory was 240 games ago.\n The elite college basketball teams dream of winning the NCAA tournament, or at least winning their conference championship. Lesser teams dream of posting a winning record. These guys just want to win a game. <i>Just one game<\/i>.\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlyagame.org\/index.php\/2008\/03\/21\/film-review-quantum-hoops\/\"> <i>Only a Game<\/i> reviews the film<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlyagame.org\/index.php\/2008\/03\/21\/college-hoops-heats-up-losing-at-cal-tech-and-the-blue-jays-taking-flight-32208\/#jvflv6\"> interviews the filmmaker<\/a>. I love the soaring soundtrack as former players recount one of their two &#8220;recent&#8221; victories, breaking a 99-game losing streak. That happened in 1979. &#8220;We won a game. A real game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> The film has a limited run in selected cities. In Seattle, it plays at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.landmarktheatres.com\/market\/Seattle\/MetroCinemas.htm\"> <i>Metro Cinemas<\/i><\/a> March&nbsp;28 through April&nbsp;4. Don&#8217;t spoil it for me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum Hoops is a new documentary which follows the college basketball program at the California Institute of Technology through its 2007&ndash;2008 season. The school is regularly honored as one of the finest academic colleges in the United States. Their basketball team, on the other hand, is not as well-honored. It has won two conference games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-22943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Quantum Hoops is a new documentary which follows the college basketball program at the California Institute of Technology through its 2007&ndash;2008 season. The school is regularly honored as one of the finest academic colleges in the United States. Their basketball team, on the other hand, is not as well-honored. It has won two conference games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}