{"id":1941214,"date":"2026-10-31T01:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1941214"},"modified":"2026-10-31T00:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T04:22:09","slug":"strong-start-not-enough-as-pack-falls-short-against-smu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1941214","title":{"rendered":"Strong Start Not Enough as Pack Falls Short Against SMU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Volleyball huddle against #5 SMU 10\/30\/26\" src=\"https:\/\/gopack.com\/common\/controls\/image_handler.aspx?thumb_prefix=rp_primary&#038;image_path=\/images\/2026\/10\/31\/DSC05620.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>RALIEGH, N.C. \u2013 Despite rallying back to take the first set and holding the initial lead in set two, the NC State volleyball team fell to fifth-ranked SMU Friday evening in four sets in Reynolds Coliseum.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gopack.com\/news\/2026\/10\/31\/womens-volleyball-strong-start-not-enough-as-pack-falls-short-against-smu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RALIEGH, N.C. \u2013 Despite rallying back to take the first set and holding the initial lead in set two, the NC State volleyball team fell to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1941215,"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-1941214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941214","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=1941214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941216,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941214\/revisions\/1941216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1941215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1941214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1941214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1941214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}