{"id":1521662,"date":"2021-12-10T15:17:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T20:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1521662"},"modified":"2026-07-26T00:11:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T04:11:43","slug":"nc-state-relishes-the-opportunity-to-face-no-1-purdue-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1521662","title":{"rendered":"NC State relishes the opportunity to face No. 1 Purdue on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/nc-state-relishes-the-opportunity-to-face-no-1-purdue-on-sunday\/20028290\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/basketball\/college_basketball\/2021\/12\/04\/20017846\/media_8de442ad44554265853045bc5813b9db-DMID1-5t68acbqq-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Louisville_NC_State_Basketball_53021\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>NC State head coach Kevin Keatts met with the media on Friday to talk about NC State&#8217;s matchup with No. 1 Purdue in Brooklyn on Sunday. In spite of the odds being against the Wolfpack in more ways than one, Keatts said that he&#8217;s relishing the challenge. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/nc-state-relishes-the-opportunity-to-face-no-1-purdue-on-sunday\/20028290\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/nc-state-relishes-the-opportunity-to-face-no-1-purdue-on-sunday\/20028290\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"NC State relishes the opportunity to face No. 1 Purdue on Sunday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NC State head coach Kevin Keatts met with the media on Friday to talk about NC State&#8217;s matchup with No. 1 Purdue in Brooklyn on Sunday&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1521662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1521662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1914313,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521662\/revisions\/1914313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1521662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1521662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1521662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}