{"id":1369,"date":"2013-05-20T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/smith-transfers-to-minnesota\/"},"modified":"2013-05-20T15:08:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T15:08:00","slug":"smith-transfers-to-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/smith-transfers-to-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith transfers to Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis, MN (Sports Network) &#8211; Malik Smith is following his head coach to Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>The former Florida International guard, Smith, signed his tender to transfer and play with the Golden Gophers on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a pleasure to coach Malik last season at FIU and I am excited that he has decided to join the Golden Gopher program,&#8221; Minnesota head coach Richard Pitino said. &#8220;His knowledge of our program on and off the court will be invaluable as we start to integrate our system here at Minnesota.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The junior, who averaged 14.1 points per game last year, will be eligible to play right away pending an NCAA waiver based on a possible APR induced postseason ban at FIU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis, MN (Sports Network) &#8211; Malik Smith is following his head coach to Minnesota. The former Florida International guard, Smith, signed his tender to transfer and play with the Golden Gophers on Monday. &#8220;It was a pleasure to coach Malik last season at FIU and I am excited that he has decided to join the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ncaa-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}