{"id":1892494,"date":"2026-07-16T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892494"},"modified":"2026-07-16T12:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:44:08","slug":"espn-projects-nc-state-to-reach-ncaa-tournament-in-justin-gaineys-first-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892494","title":{"rendered":"ESPN Projects NC State to Reach NCAA Tournament in Justin Gainey\u2019s First Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN recently released its updated Way-Too-Early Bracketology for the 2026-27 men&#8217;s basketball season, and the Wolfpack is projected to return to the NCAA Tournament in Gainey&#8217;s debut campaign. According to ESPN, NC State is currently projected as a No. 10 seed, where it would face No. 7 seed Villanova in the opening round of the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/07\/16\/espn-bracketology-projects-nc-state-2027-ncaa-tournament\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN recently released its updated Way-Too-Early Bracketology for the 2026-27 men&#8217;s basketball season, and the Wolfpack is projected to return to the NCAA Tournament in Gainey&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1892511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892494","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892495,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892494\/revisions\/1892495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}