{"id":1937948,"date":"2026-10-13T13:07:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1937948"},"modified":"2026-10-13T14:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T18:42:16","slug":"after-lsu-coaching-change-drought-thomas-wanted-to-be-part-of-uncs-winning-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1937948","title":{"rendered":"After LSU coaching change, \u2018drought,\u2019 Thomas wanted to be part of UNC\u2019s \u2018winning group\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 Kevin Thomas thought his recruitment was over. The 6\u20136, 205-pound wing had committed to LSU, canceled a planned visit to Auburn and was preparing for the next step in his basketball career. Then a coaching change at LSU wiped out that plan and forced him to start over.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/10\/13\/after-lsu-coaching-change-drought-thomas-wanted-to-be-part-of-uncs-winning-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 Kevin Thomas thought his recruitment was over. The 6\u20136, 205-pound wing had committed to LSU, canceled a planned visit to Auburn and was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1937949,"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\/2021\/11\/season-scores-schedule-banner.png?resize=1140%2C142&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1937948","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\/1937948","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=1937948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1937950,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937948\/revisions\/1937950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1937949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1937948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1937948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1937948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}