{"id":1934208,"date":"2026-09-21T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1934208"},"modified":"2026-09-21T10:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:40:29","slug":"modest-but-respectable-where-malones-first-team-falls-in-preseason-rankings-metrics-as-practice-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1934208","title":{"rendered":"Modest, but respectable: Where Malone\u2019s first team falls in preseason rankings, metrics as practice starts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As North Carolina officially opened practice Monday in its first season under Coach Michael Malone, the unofficial preseason rankings give the Tar Heels a modest but respectable starting point with a roster rebuilt largely through the transfer portal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/09\/21\/modest-but-respectable-where-malones-first-team-falls-in-preseason-rankings-metrics-as-practice-starts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As North Carolina officially opened practice Monday in its first season under Coach Michael Malone, the unofficial preseason rankings give the Tar Heels a modest but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1934222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1934208","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\/1934208","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=1934208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934209,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934208\/revisions\/1934209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1934222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1934208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1934208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1934208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}