{"id":1647322,"date":"2022-04-26T21:32:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T01:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1647322"},"modified":"2022-04-26T21:32:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T01:32:05","slug":"brief-history-of-triangle-sports-how-the-big-four-tournament-and-david-thompsons-recruitment-changed-nc-rivalry-dynamics-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1647322","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Brief History of Triangle Sports&#8217;: How the Big Four Tournament and David Thompson&#8217;s recruitment changed NC rivalry dynamics forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/brief-history-of-triangle-sports-how-the-big-four-tournament-and-david-thompson-s-recruitment-changed-nc-rivalry-dynamics-foreve\/20252967\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/ncsu\/2018\/01\/07\/17239383\/2018NCSUBballvDuke-46-DMID1-5uoosy0zm-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"NC State vs. Duke\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>There was relative peace between UNC, NC State, Duke and Wake Forest, but that all changed thanks to heated basketball dynamics in the 1970 with the Big Four Tournament and the recruitment of David Thompson. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/brief-history-of-triangle-sports-how-the-big-four-tournament-and-david-thompson-s-recruitment-changed-nc-rivalry-dynamics-foreve\/20252967\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/brief-history-of-triangle-sports-how-the-big-four-tournament-and-david-thompson-s-recruitment-changed-nc-rivalry-dynamics-foreve\/20252967\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"&#039;Brief History of Triangle Sports&#039;: How the Big Four Tournament and David Thompson&#039;s recruitment changed NC rivalry dynamics forever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was relative peace between UNC, NC State, Duke and Wake Forest, but that all changed thanks to heated basketball dynamics in the 1970 with the&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1647322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647322","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=1647322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1647322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1647322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1647322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}