{"id":41242,"date":"2014-03-17T07:58:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T12:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=41242"},"modified":"2014-03-17T07:58:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T12:58:57","slug":"bison-mens-basketball-seeded-no-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=41242","title":{"rendered":"Bison Men&#8217;s Basketball Seeded No. 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/NDSUbisongreenGoldedge.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-35848\" alt=\"NDSUbisongreenGoldedge\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/NDSUbisongreenGoldedge-300x202.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/NDSUbisongreenGoldedge-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/NDSUbisongreenGoldedge-431x291.png 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/NDSUbisongreenGoldedge-259x175.png 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/NDSUbisongreenGoldedge.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>FARGO, N.D. (AP) \u2013 Followers of the men\u2019s basketball team at North Dakota State say a viewing party for bracket selections in the NCAA tournament was more about respect than revelry. The Bison received the highest seed for a Summit League team since 1997 when they were tabbed as the Number 12 team in the West Region and tapped to play 5th ranked Oklahoma in the first game Thursday in Spokane, Washington. It\u2019s what the players and fans gathered around the video board Sunday at the Bison Sports Arena expected.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0FARGO, N.D. (AP) \u2013 North Dakota State head basketball coach Saul Phillips and his two predecessors with the Bison are bringing teams to this year\u2019s NCAA Division I tournament.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Not only that, they\u2019re all in the same regional.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nebraska\u2019s Tim Miles and Creighton\u2019s Greg McDermott both had stints with NDSU before moving on to other programs.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 McDermott led the Bison in the 2000-01 season before taking a job at Northern Iowa. Miles coached NDSU from 2001 to 2007 before joining Colorado State.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NDSU, Nebraska and Creighton are in the West Regional. NDSU plays Oklahoma, Nebraska faces Baylor, and Creighton takes on Louisiana-Lafayette in the opening round.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Phillips joked that if he and Miles get a chance to play each other, they will be the first coaches to appear at an NCAA press conference together.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) \u2013 Followers of the men\u2019s basketball team at North Dakota State say a viewing party for bracket selections in the NCAA tournament was more about respect than revelry. The Bison received the highest seed for a Summit League team since 1997 when they were tabbed as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41242","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\/41242","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=41242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41245,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41242\/revisions\/41245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}