{"id":1878950,"date":"2025-03-25T13:02:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T17:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1878950"},"modified":"2025-03-25T15:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T19:07:14","slug":"stevens-if-more-competitive-playoffs-is-the-goal-expanding-the-number-of-qualifiers-isnt-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1878950","title":{"rendered":"Stevens: If more competitive playoffs is the goal, expanding the number of qualifiers isn&#8217;t the answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The N.C. High School Athletic Association announced the new playoff structure for the 2025-2026 school year as it expands from four to eight classes. The plan also includes a massive expansion in the number of teams that will qualify for the postseason. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/other\/stevens-if-more-competitive-playoffs-is-the-goal-expanding-the-number-of-qualifiers-isnt-the-answer\/ar-AA1BAB3Q\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here for more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The N.C. High School Athletic Association announced the new playoff structure for the 2025-2026 school year as it expands from four to eight classes. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1878951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1878950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-high-school-sports","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-92-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878950","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=1878950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878952,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878950\/revisions\/1878952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1878951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1878950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1878950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1878950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}