{"id":1527645,"date":"2021-12-17T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1527645"},"modified":"2026-07-26T14:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:14:09","slug":"unc-to-play-kentucky-after-two-teams-in-vegas-tournament-sidelined-by-covid-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1527645","title":{"rendered":"UNC to play Kentucky after two teams in Vegas tournament sidelined by COVID cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/unc-to-play-kentucky-after-two-teams-in-vegas-tournament-sidelined-by-covid-cases\/20039000\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/basketball\/college_basketball\/2021\/12\/16\/20039001\/media_7ffd687868ac4e99baa25ac69fcb7635-DMID1-5t8phdixj-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Alabama_St_UCLA_Basketball_82184\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The North Carolina Tar Heels will meet Kentucky Saturday in the CBS Sports Classic in Las Vegas instead of original opponent UCLA after coronavirus concerns sidelined two of four teams scheduled to play in that tournament. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/unc-to-play-kentucky-after-two-teams-in-vegas-tournament-sidelined-by-covid-cases\/20039000\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/unc-to-play-kentucky-after-two-teams-in-vegas-tournament-sidelined-by-covid-cases\/20039000\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"UNC to play Kentucky after two teams in Vegas tournament sidelined by COVID cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North Carolina Tar Heels will meet Kentucky Saturday in the CBS Sports Classic in Las Vegas instead of original opponent UCLA after coronavirus concerns sidelined&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527645","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1527645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1923126,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527645\/revisions\/1923126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1527645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1527645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1527645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}