{"id":15421,"date":"2013-03-25T16:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T21:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=15421"},"modified":"2013-03-25T16:00:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T21:00:50","slug":"gophers-fire-tubby-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=15421","title":{"rendered":"Gophers Fire Tubby Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; Minnesota has fired Tubby Smith one day after the Golden Gophers lost to Florida in the NCAA tournament.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press that Smith was fired on Monday. The person requested anonymity because a decision has not been announced. CBSsports.com first reported the firing.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Smith spent six seasons with the Gophers, helping to bring the program back to respectability. He arrived in 2007 from Kentucky, immediately ramping up expectations for a team that had been buried by an academic cheating scandal.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Smith won 20 games five times. But he went just 46-62 in Big Ten play and never finished higher than sixth in the conference. The Gophers made three NCAA tournament appearances under Smith. They beat UCLA this year before losing on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; Minnesota has fired Tubby Smith one day after the Golden Gophers lost to Florida in the NCAA tournament. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press that Smith was fired on Monday. The person requested anonymity because a decision has not been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15421","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=15421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15423,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15421\/revisions\/15423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}