{"id":170988,"date":"2019-05-01T14:26:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T19:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=170988"},"modified":"2019-05-01T14:26:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T19:26:14","slug":"jones-leaves-und-basketball-headed-to-illinois-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=170988","title":{"rendered":"Jones leaves UND basketball, headed to Illinois St."},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"story_content\" class=\"summary ap-serif d-block mb-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-170990\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/JonesBrian-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/JonesBrian-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/JonesBrian-116x175.jpg 116w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/JonesBrian.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) \u2014 University of North Dakota men&#8217;s basketball coach Brian Jones is stepping down to join the staff at Illinois State.<\/p>\n<p>Jones says in a release that he has accepted the associate head coaching job with the Redbirds in order to be closer to family. Jones is a native of Rock Island, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>Jones won 190 games in his 13 years with North Dakota, which ranks fourth all-time. In that time he spearheaded the program&#8217;s transition from the Division II to Division I ranks.<\/p>\n<p>The Fighting Hawks earned their first berth in the Division I tournament in 2016-17, after winning the Big Sky Conference regular season and postseason titles.<\/p>\n<p>North Dakota athletic director Bill Chaves says Jones will always be known as the coach that took the team to the &#8220;Big Dance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) \u2014 University of North Dakota men&#8217;s basketball coach Brian Jones is stepping down to join the staff at Illinois State. Jones says in a release that he has accepted the associate head coaching job with the Redbirds in order to be closer to family. Jones is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":170989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170988","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\/170988","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=170988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170991,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170988\/revisions\/170991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}