{"id":1928738,"date":"2026-08-20T10:03:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1928738"},"modified":"2026-08-20T10:56:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:56:55","slug":"malones-first-non-conference-schedule-features-plenty-of-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1928738","title":{"rendered":"Malone\u2019s first non-conference schedule features plenty of challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coach Michael Malone\u2019s first North Carolina team will get early measuring sticks before ACC play begins, with a non-conference schedule that mixes exhibition tune-ups and high-profile showcase games. UNC released the entire men\u2019s basketball non-conference schedule on Thursday, although most of it was already known. See the full non-conference schedule below the story.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/08\/20\/malones-first-non-conference-schedule-features-plenty-of-challenges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malone&#8217;s first non-conference schedule features plenty of challenges<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/08\/20\/malones-first-non-conference-schedule-features-plenty-of-challenges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coach Michael Malone\u2019s first North Carolina team will get early measuring sticks before ACC play begins, with a non-conference schedule that mixes exhibition tune-ups and high-profile&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1928743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928738","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1928738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928739,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928738\/revisions\/1928739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1928743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}