{"id":1928538,"date":"2026-08-19T06:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1928538"},"modified":"2026-08-19T08:13:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T12:13:57","slug":"duke-has-gone-from-winning-an-acc-title-to-retooling-its-2026-roster-after-high-profile-defections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1928538","title":{"rendered":"Duke has gone from winning an ACC title to retooling its 2026 roster after high-profile defections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duke won its first outright Atlantic Coast Conference championship in more than six decades in Manny Diaz&#8217;s second season as coach. The Blue Devils will have a retooled roster while trying to follow up on a nine-win season. That comes after personnel losses that include quarterback Darian Mensah&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/383ce-duke-has-gone-from-winning-an-acc-title-to-retooling-its-2026-roster-after-high-profile-defections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duke won its first outright Atlantic Coast Conference championship in more than six decades in Manny Diaz&#8217;s second season as coach. The Blue Devils will have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928538","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=1928538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928539,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928538\/revisions\/1928539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}