{"id":43269,"date":"2014-04-11T14:24:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T19:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=43269"},"modified":"2014-04-11T14:25:23","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T19:25:23","slug":"braun-accepts-invitational-tournament-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=43269","title":{"rendered":"Braun Accepts Invitational Tournament Offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Basketball.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13771\" alt=\"Basketball\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Basketball-300x202.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Basketball-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Basketball-431x291.png 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Basketball-259x175.png 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Basketball.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota State University senior guard Taylor Braun has accepted an invitation to play in the 2014 Portsmouth Invitational Tournament in Virginia next week.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The tournament each year invites 64 of the top college basketball seniors from around the country to participate in a four-day, 12-game tournament in front of representatives from every NBA team. Scouts from numerous international leagues also are expected to be in attendance next Wednesday through Saturday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Braun was the Summit League player of the year this past season, leading the league with an average of nearly 18 points per game. He also was in the top five in assists and rebounds.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Newberg, Ore., native concluded his NDSU career ranked among the school&#8217;s all-time top 10 in nine statistical categories, including points, steals and rebounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota State University senior guard Taylor Braun has accepted an invitation to play in the 2014 Portsmouth Invitational Tournament in Virginia next week. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The tournament each year invites 64 of the top college basketball seniors from around the country to participate in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43269","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\/43269","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=43269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43273,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43269\/revisions\/43273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}