{"id":54501,"date":"2019-04-02T03:41:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T07:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=54501"},"modified":"2019-04-01T15:53:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T19:53:56","slug":"vp-athletic-director-presents-final-four-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/04_02_2019\/vp-athletic-director-presents-final-four-trophy","title":{"rendered":"VP\/athletic director presents Final Four trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University of Toledo Vice President and Director of Athletics Mike O\u2019Brien had a courtside seat for the NCAA Men\u2019s Basketball Tournament South Regional in Louisville, Ky.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_54505\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?attachment_id=54505\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54505\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54505\" src=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/OBrien-at-NCAA-Tournament.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"301\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/OBrien-at-NCAA-Tournament.jpeg 540w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/OBrien-at-NCAA-Tournament-300x167.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-54505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">University of Toledo Vice President and Director of Athletics Mike O\u2019Brien, center left holding microphone, talked to University of Virginia Men&#8217;s Basketball Coach Tony Bennett after the Cavaliers beat the Purdue Boilermakers to win the NCAA Men\u2019s Basketball Tournament South Regional and advance to the Final Four.<\/p><\/div>He is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Men\u2019s Basketball Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Following Virginia\u2019s thrilling 80-75 overtime victory over Purdue March 30, O\u2019Brien presented a Final Four trophy to the Cavaliers, who won the South Regional of the NCAA Men\u2019s Basketball Tournament and advanced to the Final Four.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, O\u2019Brien was named to the 10-member committee that selects, seeds and brackets the field for the NCAA Tournament. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Mike O\u2019Brien, vice president and director of athletics, presented a Final Four trophy to the Virginia Cavaliers March 30 during the NCAA Men\u2019s Basketball Tournament South Regional in Louisville, Ky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54501"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54506,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54501\/revisions\/54506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}