{"id":1767281,"date":"2022-10-17T12:18:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T16:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1767281"},"modified":"2026-07-26T14:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:40:12","slug":"unc-ranked-no-1-in-preseason-mens-basketball-ap-top-25-duke-no-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1767281","title":{"rendered":"UNC ranked No. 1 in preseason men&#8217;s basketball AP Top 25, Duke No. 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/north-carolina-no-1-in-preseason-ap-top-25-mens-basketball\/20525082\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/basketball\/college_basketball\/2022\/10\/17\/20525101\/media_d59f79bd4bdd4444bd731cc46ef01a0e-DMID1-5wllpa4f5-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"College_BKB_Poll_Basketball_68873\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>North Carolina surprised just about everyone last year when a talented team led by first-year coach Hubert Davis parlayed a No. 8 seed in the NCAA Tournament into a run to the national title game. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/north-carolina-no-1-in-preseason-ap-top-25-mens-basketball\/20525082\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/north-carolina-no-1-in-preseason-ap-top-25-mens-basketball\/20525082\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"UNC ranked No. 1 in preseason men&#039;s basketball AP Top 25, Duke No. 7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina surprised just about everyone last year when a talented team led by first-year coach Hubert Davis parlayed a No. 8 seed in the NCAA&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1767281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duke-blue-devils","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-82-id","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767281","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=1767281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1917776,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767281\/revisions\/1917776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1767281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1767281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1767281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}