{"id":1939222,"date":"2026-10-20T12:18:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1939222"},"modified":"2026-10-20T13:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T17:12:13","slug":"unc-earns-fifth-straight-top-16-ranking-in-preseason-top-25-womens-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1939222","title":{"rendered":"UNC earns fifth straight top-16 ranking in preseason Top 25 women\u2019s poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina, picked to finish third in the ACC, is No. 12 in the preseason women\u2019s AP Top 25 poll released on Tuesday. It\u2019s the fifth straight season ranked in the top 16 of the preseason poll, after being No. 11 last season. The Tar Heels were No. 15 two seasons ago, No. 16 in 2023\u201324 and No. 12 in 2022\u201323.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/10\/20\/unc-earns-fifth-straight-top-16-ranking-in-preseason-top-25-womens-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina, picked to finish third in the ACC, is No. 12 in the preseason women\u2019s AP Top 25 poll released on Tuesday. It\u2019s the fifth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1939223,"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-1939222","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\/1939222","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=1939222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939224,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939222\/revisions\/1939224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1939223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1939222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1939222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1939222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}