{"id":1939131,"date":"2026-10-19T17:03:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T21:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1939131"},"modified":"2026-10-19T22:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T02:42:19","slug":"beyond-the-box-score-a-deep-dive-into-the-numbers-behind-nc-states-77-73-win-over-mississippi-state-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1939131","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Box Score: A Deep Dive Into the Numbers Behind NC State\u2019s 77-73 Win Over Mississippi State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NC State opened the Justin Gainey era with a 77-73 exhibition victory over Mississippi State in Greensboro, overcoming a six-point deficit in the final three minutes to secure the win. The Wolfpack shot just 41.7% from the field and was outrebounded 39-30, but managed to win three of basketball&#8217;s Four Factors, helping explain how NC [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/10\/19\/beyond-the-box-score-nc-state-mississippi-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NC State opened the Justin Gainey era with a 77-73 exhibition victory over Mississippi State in Greensboro, overcoming a six-point deficit in the final three minutes&#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-1939131","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\/1939131","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=1939131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939132,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939131\/revisions\/1939132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1939131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1939131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1939131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}