{"id":42811,"date":"2014-04-06T17:56:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T22:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=42811"},"modified":"2014-04-06T20:23:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T01:23:41","slug":"phillips-leaving-ndsu-basketball-coaching-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=42811","title":{"rendered":"NDSU Basketball Coach Phillips Leaving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/PhillipsSaul.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16344\" alt=\"PhillipsSaulTHUMB\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/PhillipsSaul.jpg\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/PhillipsSaul.jpg 133w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/PhillipsSaul-116x175.jpg 116w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/><\/a>Fargo (CSi)\u00a0 NDSU Bison men&#8217;s head basketball coach, Saul Phillips is leaving to become the head coach of the men&#8217;s basketball program\u00a0\u00a0with the\u00a0Ohio University, Bobcats\u00a0in Athens, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips coached at NDSU\u00a0for\u00a0\u00a0seven seasons\u00a0with 134 wins, two NCAA Tournament appearances, a NCAA\u00a0victory\u00a0\u00a0over Oklahoma this year \u00a0and three consecutive postseasons.<\/p>\n<p>University of Ohio won\u00a025 games and took third in the MAC this past season.\u00a0 Phillips succeeds Jim Christian\u00a0who left \u00a0Ohio on Thursday to become the new head coach at Boston College.<\/p>\n<p>Christian&#8217;s \u00a0salary was 425 thousand dollars, the most pay \u00a0in the MAC.\u00a0 It&#8217;s expected \u00a0Phillips\u00a0will not receive that much, but\u00a0a \u00a0significant pay raise over his NDSU salary.<\/p>\n<p>More at <a title=\"Ohio University\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ohiobobcats.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/spec-rel\/040614aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ohio University Athletics <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fargo (CSi)\u00a0 NDSU Bison men&#8217;s head basketball coach, Saul Phillips is leaving to become the head coach of the men&#8217;s basketball program\u00a0\u00a0with the\u00a0Ohio University, Bobcats\u00a0in Athens, Ohio. Phillips coached at NDSU\u00a0for\u00a0\u00a0seven seasons\u00a0with 134 wins, two NCAA Tournament appearances, a NCAA\u00a0victory\u00a0\u00a0over Oklahoma this year \u00a0and three consecutive postseasons. University of Ohio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42811"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42827,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42811\/revisions\/42827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}