{"id":1006392,"date":"2021-03-31T05:56:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T09:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/this-day-in-history-1983-fresno-state-beats-depaul-to-win-the-nit-yourcentralvalley-com\/"},"modified":"2021-03-31T05:56:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T09:56:08","slug":"this-day-in-history-1983-fresno-state-beats-depaul-to-win-the-nit-yourcentralvalley-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/history\/this-day-in-history-1983-fresno-state-beats-depaul-to-win-the-nit-yourcentralvalley-com\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day in History (1983): Fresno State beats DePaul to win the NIT &#8211; YourCentralValley.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>(KSEE\/KGPE)  On this day 38 years ago, the Fresno State mens basketball team was the last team standing in New York City. On March 30th, 1983, the Bulldogs defeated DePaul, 69-60, to win the National Invitational Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Its a dream come true, said Boyd Grant, Fresno States head coach. New York is the hub of basketball. This is the biggest thrill of my life.<\/p>\n<p>Fresno State began its NIT run that season with a 71-64 win over UTEP, followed by a 72-58 win over Michigan State and a 76-67 win over Oregon State to reach Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>In New York City, the Bulldogs beat Wake Forest, 86-62, before taking on DePaul in the NIT championship game.<\/p>\n<p>Bernard Thompson scored 22 points against the Blue Demons to lead Fresno State (25-10). Ron Anderson, who scored 14 points in the championship game, was named NIT MVP.<\/p>\n<p>For local, national, and breaking news, and to get weather alerts, download our FREE mobile app from theApple App Storeor the Google Play Store.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Go here to see the original:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourcentralvalley.com\/bulldog-sports\/this-day-in-history-1983-fresno-state-beats-depaul-to-win-the-nit\/\" title=\"This Day in History (1983): Fresno State beats DePaul to win the NIT - YourCentralValley.com\">This Day in History (1983): Fresno State beats DePaul to win the NIT - YourCentralValley.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> (KSEE\/KGPE) On this day 38 years ago, the Fresno State mens basketball team was the last team standing in New York City. On March 30th, 1983, the Bulldogs defeated DePaul, 69-60, to win the National Invitational Tournament. Its a dream come true, said Boyd Grant, Fresno States head coach.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/history\/this-day-in-history-1983-fresno-state-beats-depaul-to-win-the-nit-yourcentralvalley-com\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487844],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}