{"id":117740,"date":"2017-03-11T15:30:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T21:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=117740"},"modified":"2017-03-12T21:11:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T02:11:42","slug":"und-men-headed-to-ncaa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=117740","title":{"rendered":"UND Men headed to NCAA Tournament vs Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Update&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>UND will play Arizona on Thursday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>UND the \u00a0No. 15 seed in the tournament while Arizona the PAC 12 champion\u00a0\u00a0is the No. 2\u00a0 seed.<\/p>\n<p>RENO, Nev. (AP) \u2014 Quinton Hooker scored 28 points and North Dakota beat Weber State 93-89 in overtime Saturday night to win the Big Sky Conference Tournament and earn its first NCAA Tournament bid.<\/p>\n<p>Top-seeded North Dakota (22-10) rallied with a 20-9 run to force overtime after falling behind 72-61 with 7:26 left.<\/p>\n<p>Geno Crandall&#8217;s layup with 7 seconds left tied it at 81. Crandall and Hooker then combined for 10 of North Dakota&#8217;s 12 points in the extra period. Center Conner Avants added 13 points on 6-of-14 shooting, and Corey Baldwin had 10 points.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Senglin led the third-seeded Wildcats (19-13) with 26 points. Kyndahl Hill added 21 points and 12 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Weber State and North Dakota have played overtime games in back-to-back conference tournaments. Weber State eliminated North Dakota last year, 83-78.<\/p>\n<p>UP NEXT<\/p>\n<p>Weber State: The Wildcats hope to get into the NIT or another lesser tournament.<\/p>\n<p>North Dakota: The Fighting Hawks are headed to their first NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update&#8230; UND will play Arizona on Thursday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. &nbsp; UND the \u00a0No. 15 seed in the tournament while Arizona the PAC 12 champion\u00a0\u00a0is the No. 2\u00a0 seed. RENO, Nev. (AP) \u2014 Quinton Hooker scored 28 points and North Dakota beat Weber State 93-89 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":102961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117740"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117774,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117740\/revisions\/117774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}