{"id":135019,"date":"2017-12-16T21:51:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T03:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=135019"},"modified":"2017-12-19T12:21:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T18:21:17","slug":"bison-to-play-james-madison-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=135019","title":{"rendered":"Bison to play James Madison, Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-35849\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ndsubisonHead445-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ndsubisonHead445-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ndsubisonHead445-431x291.png 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ndsubisonHead445-259x175.png 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ndsubisonHead445.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>UNIVERSITY PARK, Fla. (AP) \u2014 NDSU and James Madison play January \u00a06th at 11-a.m., in Frisco Texas, for the FCS National Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Stuckey Mosley scored 23 of his 28 points in the second half and Darius Banks added 16 points to propel <span style=\"color: red;\">James<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: red;\">Madison<\/span> to a 76-67 victory over Florida International on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Stuckey knocked down 4 of 6 from 3-point range and made all 10 of his free throws for the Dukes (4-8), who snapped a two-game skid. Banks connected on 7 of 10 shots and Stuckey made half of his 14 shots, but the rest of the Dukes hit just 9 of 27 (33 percent) from the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Reserve Willy Nunez Jr. hit four 3-pointers and scored 18 to pace the Panthers (5-6), who began a season-long six-game homestand. Hassan Hussein added 17 points and seven rebounds, Brian Beard Jr. chipped in with 10 points and seven assists and Eric Lockett scored 10.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red;\">James<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: red;\">Madison<\/span> led 35-24 but Trejon Jacob scored four in a 5-0 run and FIU trailed 35-29 at halftime. Hussein scored six in an 8-2 spurt that left the Panthers leading 41-37 early in the second half. Nunez hit four 3s over a span of 4:29 and FIU led 53-51 with 8:47 to play. But Mosley took over from there, scoring seven in a 9-0 spurt that put the Dukes on top for good.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNIVERSITY PARK, Fla. (AP) \u2014 NDSU and James Madison play January \u00a06th at 11-a.m., in Frisco Texas, for the FCS National Championship. Stuckey Mosley scored 23 of his 28 points in the second half and Darius Banks added 16 points to propel James\u00a0Madison to a 76-67 victory over Florida International [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135019","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\/135019","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=135019"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135024,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135019\/revisions\/135024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}