{"id":1931034,"date":"2026-09-03T11:03:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T15:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1931034"},"modified":"2026-09-03T11:34:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T15:34:02","slug":"malone-deals-with-eligibility-limbo-of-fens-who-can-still-practice-with-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1931034","title":{"rendered":"Malone deals with eligibility limbo of Fens, who can still practice with team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 Cameron Fens spent the better part of August believing that he would finish his college basketball career in Chapel Hill. Now, with North Carolina\u2019s season opener less than two months away, the 7\u20130 center still doesn\u2019t know if he\u2019ll be allowed to play in it. Fens, a graduate transfer from South Dakota, committed to Coach Michael Malone\u2019s program on Aug. 8, filling what became North Carolina\u2019s sixth transfer portal addition and 11th newcomer overall, seemingly completing the Tar Heels\u2019 first roster under the first-year coach.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/09\/03\/malone-deals-with-eligibility-limbo-of-fens-who-can-still-practice-with-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malone deals with eligibility limbo of Fens, who can still practice with team<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/09\/03\/malone-deals-with-eligibility-limbo-of-fens-who-can-still-practice-with-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 Cameron Fens spent the better part of August believing that he would finish his college basketball career in Chapel Hill. Now, with North&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1931034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931034","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=1931034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931035,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931034\/revisions\/1931035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1931034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1931034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1931034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}