{"id":1878926,"date":"2025-03-25T13:13:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T17:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1878926"},"modified":"2025-03-25T14:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:20:13","slug":"march-madness-is-nil-the-death-of-cinderella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1878926","title":{"rendered":"March Madness: Is NIL the death of Cinderella?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the transfer portal does work both ways, mid-major coaches say that it\u2019s tougher now than it was five years ago to find power-conference players seeking to drop down a level in search of more playing time. The NIL money available to a SEC or Big Ten benchwarmer often surpasses the market for a SoCon or Horizon League starter. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/college-sports\/march-madness-is-nil-the-death-of-cinderella\/ar-AA1BDaOU?\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here for more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the transfer portal does work both ways, mid-major coaches say that it\u2019s tougher now than it was five years ago to find power-conference players&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1878929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1878926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878926","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=1878926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878930,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878926\/revisions\/1878930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1878929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1878926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1878926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1878926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}