{"id":1928643,"date":"2026-08-19T16:25:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T20:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1928643"},"modified":"2026-08-19T17:43:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T21:43:56","slug":"gainey-speaks-on-announcement-of-two-year-deal-for-nc-state-and-unc-to-play-a-non-conference-game-in-greensboro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1928643","title":{"rendered":"Gainey speaks on announcement of two year deal for NC State and UNC to play a non-conference game in Greensboro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina and NC State officially announced their non-conference game in Greensboro on Dec. 15, 2026, as the inaugural Tobacco Road Classic, restoring a second regular-season meeting after ACC scheduling changes ended their traditional home-and-home guarantee. The schools announced the neutral-site matchup Wednesday at First Horizon Coliseum (formerly the Greensboro Coliseum). It is the first [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/08\/19\/gainey-speaks-on-announcement-of-two-year-deal-for-nc-state-and-unc-to-play-a-non-conference-game-in-greensboro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina and NC State officially announced their non-conference game in Greensboro on Dec. 15, 2026, as the inaugural Tobacco Road Classic, restoring a second regular-season&#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":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928643","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=1928643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928644,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928643\/revisions\/1928644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}