{"id":728531,"date":"2018-07-13T15:26:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T20:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=728531"},"modified":"2018-07-15T14:27:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T19:27:04","slug":"ut-tyler-a-division-ii-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=728531","title":{"rendered":"UT Tyler, Heading to Division II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/10\/U-T-Tyler-Sign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/10\/U-T-Tyler-Sign.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"91\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-406011\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8211; The University of Texas at Tyler has announced it has been accepted into the NCAA Division II process. The announcement was made Friday afternoon by school president  Dr. Michael Tidwell.  UT Tyler is expected to join the Lone Star Conference.  During a three-year transitional period, UT Tyler teams are not eligible to compete for NCAA championships. The Patriots applied for NCAA Division II status in February, after a nearly year-long vetting process with guidance from an expert consultant and internal research led by the school&#8217;s athletic director, Dr. Howard Patterson.  UT Tyler currently sponsors intercollegiate teams in 17 sports. The leap into Division II could allow for the university to create a football program in the future. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211; The University of Texas at Tyler has announced it has been accepted into the NCAA Division II process. The announcement was made Friday afternoon by school president Dr. Michael Tidwell. UT Tyler is expected to join the Lone Star Conference. During a three-year transitional period, UT Tyler teams are not eligible to compete &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=728531\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UT Tyler, Heading to Division II<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":406011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 01:11:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=728531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728555,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728531\/revisions\/728555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/406011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}