{"id":1936634,"date":"2026-10-05T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1936634"},"modified":"2026-10-05T13:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T17:12:17","slug":"tar-heel-trio-ramps-up-excitement-for-season-at-acc-tipoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1936634","title":{"rendered":"Tar Heel Trio Ramps Up Excitement For Season At ACC Tipoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Courtney Banghart, Nyla Brooks, and Achol Akot during 2026 ACC Tipoff press conference\" src=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/common\/controls\/image_handler.aspx?thumb_prefix=rp_primary&#038;image_path=\/images\/2026\/10\/5\/wbb_presser_cover.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Less than two weeks remain until North Carolina women&#8217;s basketball&#8217;s first exhibition game, with anticipation climbing for the 2026-27 campaign as head coach Courtney Banghart, senior forward Achol Akot and sophomore guard Nyla Brooks took center stage at ACC Tipoff from the Hilton Uptown in Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/news\/2026\/10\/5\/womens-basketball-tar-heel-trio-ramps-up-excitement-for-season-at-acc-tipoff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than two weeks remain until North Carolina women&#8217;s basketball&#8217;s first exhibition game, with anticipation climbing for the 2026-27 campaign as head coach Courtney Banghart, senior&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1936635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1936634","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\/1936634","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=1936634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1936636,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936634\/revisions\/1936636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1936635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1936634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1936634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1936634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}