{"id":175672,"date":"2016-03-11T09:13:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T14:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=175672"},"modified":"2026-07-26T14:01:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:01:23","slug":"payne-tar-heels-cant-afford-slow-start-against-fighting-irish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=175672","title":{"rendered":"Payne: Tar Heels can&#8217;t afford slow start against Fighting Irish"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/tar-heels-can-t-afford-slow-start-against-fighting-irish\/15518552\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/unc\/2016\/02\/14\/15366846\/15366846-1457704657-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"Tar Heels host Panthers\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The end of the first half of North Carolina&#8217;s first game in the ACC Tournament was enough to send the Tar Heels to the break up 39-35. Six straight defensive stops gave the Tar Heels ten unanswered points, digging them out of an eight-point hole. UNC&#8217;s defensive lockdown was also enough to save Roy Williams a halftime speech on the very subject. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/tar-heels-can-t-afford-slow-start-against-fighting-irish\/15518552\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/tar-heels-can-t-afford-slow-start-against-fighting-irish\/15518552\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Payne: Tar Heels can&#039;t afford slow start against Fighting Irish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of the first half of North Carolina&#8217;s first game in the ACC Tournament was enough to send the Tar Heels to the break up&#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-175672","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\/175672","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=175672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1922248,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175672\/revisions\/1922248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}