{"id":1025762,"date":"2022-03-19T05:35:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T05:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/19\/watch-iu-cheerleaders-rescue-stuck-ball-during-march-madness-game\/"},"modified":"2022-03-19T05:35:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T05:35:41","slug":"watch-iu-cheerleaders-rescue-stuck-ball-during-march-madness-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/19\/watch-iu-cheerleaders-rescue-stuck-ball-during-march-madness-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: IU cheerleaders rescue stuck ball during March Madness game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IU-cheerleaders-rescue-stuck-ball-during-March-Madness-game.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 18 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A pair of Indiana University cheerleaders sprang into action to save the day when a basketball got stuck between the backboard and the shot clock in the team&#8217;s game against St. Mary&#8217;s College.<\/p>\n<p>March Madness turned into frustration early in the second half of Thursday&#8217;s game when a missed shot resulted in the ball becoming stuck between the backboard and shot clock.\n<\/p>\n<p>A video <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarchMadnessMBB\/status\/1504621225959600135?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1504621225959600135%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fabc7.com%2Fmarch-madness-indiana-university-cheerleaders-save-the-day-saint-marys%2F11661307%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> by the official NCAA March Madness account showed how players and referees attempted unsuccessfully to reach the ball with a pole. One referee attempted standing on a folding chair, but still came away unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana cheerleaders Nathan Paris and Cassidy Cerny sprang into action, with Cerny standing atop Paris&#8217; hands to reach the ball.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What a play! The cheerleader saves the day,&#8221; a commentator said in the video.<\/p>\n<p>The cheerleaders were praised by the official IU Cheerleading account on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Their &#8216;One Shining Moment&#8217; tonight doing what they do everyday. Nathan Paris and Cassidy Cerny,&#8221; the post said.<\/p>\n<p>Cerny and Paris <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/announcerskeds\/status\/1504648387802632192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1504648387802632192%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.indy100.com%2Fsport%2Fcheerleader-saves-basketball-game-indiana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said it was an unusual moment<\/a>, but the skills they used the retrieve the ball were ones they had practiced numerous times and felt comfortable utilizing to rescue the ball.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 18 (UPI) &#8212; A pair of Indiana University cheerleaders sprang into action to save the day when a basketball got stuck between the backboard and the shot clock in the team&#8217;s game against St. Mary&#8217;s College. March Madness turned into frustration early in the second half of Thursday&#8217;s game when a missed shot resulted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1025763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}