{"id":1828771,"date":"2023-11-28T20:28:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T01:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1828771"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:31:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T04:31:26","slug":"acc-sec-challenge-clash-another-full-circle-moment-for-rick-barnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1828771","title":{"rendered":"ACC\/SEC Challenge clash another full circle moment for Rick Barnes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Barnes sat alongside Hubert Davis on the steps outside of George Mason&#8217;s gymnasium in the late 1980s. Barnes, then a first-time head coach, was recruiting Davis, a 6-foot-5 guard from nearby Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Virginia. Davis was the first player that Barnes recruited and though he hadn&#8217;t fielded a lot of offers, the opportunity to play for the North Carolina Tar Heels where he had a family connection was too much to compete with. <a href=\"https:\/\/tennessee.rivals.com\/news\/acc-sec-challenge-clash-another-full-circle-moment-for-rick-barnes\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here for more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Barnes sat alongside Hubert Davis on the steps outside of George Mason&#8217;s gymnasium in the late 1980s. Barnes, then a first-time head coach, was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1828772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1828771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/1828771","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=1828771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1828773,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828771\/revisions\/1828773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1828772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1828771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1828771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1828771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}