{"id":1934971,"date":"2026-09-25T12:32:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T16:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1934971"},"modified":"2026-09-25T13:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T17:02:07","slug":"nc-state-basketball-will-play-two-exhibition-games-before-justin-gainey-era-officially-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1934971","title":{"rendered":"NC State Basketball Will Play Two Exhibition Games Before Justin Gainey Era OFFICIALLY Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NC State&#8217;s 2026-27 Men&#8217;s Basketball season officially begins on November 2 when the Wolfpack hosts Campbell at the Lenovo Center, but Wolfpack fans won&#8217;t have to wait until November to get their first look at the Justin Gainey era. NC State will play two exhibition games in October, including a neutral-site matchup against Mississippi State [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/09\/25\/nc-state-basketball-exhibition-games-2026-mississippi-state-lenoir-rhyne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NC State&#8217;s 2026-27 Men&#8217;s Basketball season officially begins on November 2 when the Wolfpack hosts Campbell at the Lenovo Center, but Wolfpack fans won&#8217;t have to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1934971","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\/1934971","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=1934971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934972,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934971\/revisions\/1934972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1934971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1934971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1934971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}