{"id":41717,"date":"2014-03-21T14:39:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T19:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=41717"},"modified":"2014-03-21T14:41:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T19:41:50","slug":"bison-tournament-victory-signature-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=41717","title":{"rendered":"Bison Tournament Victory &#8220;Signature Win&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ndsubisonHead445.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-35849\" alt=\"ndsubisonHead445\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ndsubisonHead445-300x202.png\" 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\" \/><\/a>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota State University officials who helped build up the school&#8217;s athletic program are calling the upset victory over Oklahoma in the NCAA men&#8217;s basketball tournament the signature win for all sports.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The No. 12-seeded Bison knocked off the No. 5 Sooners 80-75 in overtime Thursday. It&#8217;s the first tournament victory for NDSU, which is participating in its sixth year as a Division I program.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NDSU athletic director Gene Taylor, who was hired to oversee the transition from small college athletics, says the win over Oklahoma came on bigger stage than the school&#8217;s surprising football victory over Kansas State last fall.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Bison have won three straight Football Championship Subdivision titles under Taylor, who says the key to success is &#8220;hiring the right people and getting out of the way.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota State University officials who helped build up the school&#8217;s athletic program are calling the upset victory over Oklahoma in the NCAA men&#8217;s basketball tournament the signature win for all sports. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The No. 12-seeded Bison knocked off the No. 5 Sooners 80-75 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41717","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\/41717","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=41717"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41721,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41717\/revisions\/41721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}