{"id":117877,"date":"2017-03-14T16:13:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T21:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=117877"},"modified":"2017-03-14T16:13:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T21:13:51","slug":"hawks-providing-morale-boost-at-und","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=117877","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hawks providing morale boost at UND"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-102962\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/UNDhawksLOGO1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/UNDhawksLOGO1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/UNDhawksLOGO1-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/UNDhawksLOGO1-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/UNDhawksLOGO1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) \u2014 The University of North Dakota basketball team is providing a morale boost to a campus still smarting from a nickname controversy and reeling from budget cuts that put some athletic programs on the chopping block.<\/p>\n<p>The school is making its first appearance in the NCAA Division I men&#8217;s basketball tournament, considered in most circles to be the premier event of college sports. While that might not be the prevailing opinion on a campus where hockey is king, the basketball team is showing fans what it means to be in the Big Dance.<\/p>\n<p>The team is also putting the new Fighting Hawks logo on display. The moniker was rolled out this year after a three-year moratorium to let people cool off from a contentious battle over the now-retired Fighting Sioux nickname.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) \u2014 The University of North Dakota basketball team is providing a morale boost to a campus still smarting from a nickname controversy and reeling from budget cuts that put some athletic programs on the chopping block. The school is making its first appearance in the NCAA [&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-117877","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\/117877","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=117877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117878,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117877\/revisions\/117878"}],"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=117877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}