{"id":1937418,"date":"2026-10-09T22:41:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T02:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1937418"},"modified":"2026-10-10T00:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T04:02:13","slug":"defense-ignites-heels-as-stevenson-hits-25-they-roll-in-malones-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1937418","title":{"rendered":"Defense ignites Heels as Stevenson hits 25, they roll in Malone\u2019s debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GREENSBORO \u2014 The newcomers Carolina expected to score didn\u2019t, but returnees filled the void nicely as the Michael Malone era began.<br \/>\nImproved second-half defense held USC scoreless for nearly six minutes as the Tar Heels took control. UNC rebounded from a halftime deficit for an 88\u201370 win Friday night over Southern Cal at the First Horizon Coliseum in the exhibition opener for both teams.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/10\/09\/defense-ignites-heels-as-stevenson-hits-25-they-roll-in-malones-debut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREENSBORO \u2014 The newcomers Carolina expected to score didn\u2019t, but returnees filled the void nicely as the Michael Malone era began. Improved second-half defense held USC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1937419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tarheeltribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-17.png?resize=724%2C669&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1937418","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\/1937418","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=1937418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1937420,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937418\/revisions\/1937420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1937419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1937418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1937418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1937418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}