{"id":1938236,"date":"2026-10-15T08:44:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T12:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1938236"},"modified":"2026-10-15T09:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:12:07","slug":"nc-state-basketball-has-a-history-of-falling-short-of-expectations-can-justin-gainey-change-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1938236","title":{"rendered":"NC State Basketball Has a History of Falling Short of Expectations. Can Justin Gainey Change That?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official 2026-27 ACC Men&#8217;s Basketball Preseason Poll was released earlier this week, and NC State was picked to finish 8th in the conference in Justin Gainey&#8217;s first season as Head Coach, but how much stock should we put in that projection? More specifically, how has NC State lived up to, or failed to live [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/10\/15\/nc-state-basketball-preseason-expectations-justin-gainey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official 2026-27 ACC Men&#8217;s Basketball Preseason Poll was released earlier this week, and NC State was picked to finish 8th in the conference in Justin&#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-1938236","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\/1938236","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=1938236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1938237,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938236\/revisions\/1938237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1938236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1938236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1938236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}