{"id":291316,"date":"2025-02-27T14:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T20:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=291316"},"modified":"2025-02-27T14:03:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T20:03:49","slug":"vcsu-travels-to-dakota-state-for-nsaa-semifinals-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=291316","title":{"rendered":"VCSU Travels to Dakota State for NSAA Semifinals Sat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/vcsu-wbb22725.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/vcsu-wbb22725.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-291317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/vcsu-wbb22725.jpg 800w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/vcsu-wbb22725-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/vcsu-wbb22725-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/vcsu-wbb22725-311x175.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>VCSU &#8211;<\/strong> The VCSU womens basketball team is set to take on Dakota State in the NSAA Semifinal round Saturday at 1 pm in Madison SD.<br>\u00a0<br>Valley City State, who is the No. 5 seed in the postseason tournament, reached the NSAA Semifinals with a 78-76 road victory over No. 4 Bellevue. Dakota State, who holds a 22-4 record on the season and a 14-1 mark in conference play,\u00a0earned a first-round bye as the No. 1 seed. VCSU handed Dakota State its only conference loss this season on Feb. 1 with a final score of 75-61 in Valley City.<br>\u00a0<br>Saturday&#8217;s game will have live coverage available at the links below.<br>\u00a0<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gm2AMjSBi14\">Watch VCSU at Dakota State<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/naiastats.prestosports.com\/sports\/wbkb\/2024-25\/conf\/North_Star\/boxscores\/20250301_c077.xml\">Follow VCSU at Dakota State live stats<\/a><br>\u00a0<br>VCSU lost its most recent matchup\u00a067-66 to\u00a0Dakota State\u00a0on Feb. 15 in a game that featured six lead changes and neither team leading by more than seven points throughout the 40 minutes. The Vikings look to knock off the NSAA&#8217;s top seed and NAIA No. 8 Trojans for the second time this season. Saturday&#8217;s winner will advance to the NSAA Championship game to face the winner of No. 2 Mayville State and No. 3 Jamestown. The NSAA Championship will be played Tuesday, March 4 at the highest remaining seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VCSU &#8211; The VCSU womens basketball team is set to take on Dakota State in the NSAA Semifinal round Saturday at 1 pm in Madison SD.\u00a0Valley City State, who is the No. 5 seed in the postseason tournament, reached the NSAA Semifinals with a 78-76 road victory over No. 4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":291317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291316","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291316"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291323,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291316\/revisions\/291323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/291317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}