{"id":1941426,"date":"2026-11-01T06:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1941426"},"modified":"2026-11-01T07:12:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T12:12:25","slug":"malone-era-set-to-begin-officially-monday-vs-western-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1941426","title":{"rendered":"Malone Era Set To Begin Officially Monday Vs. Western Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kevin Thomas \nUniversity of North Carolina Men\u2019s Basketball v Charlotte\nDean E Smith Center\nChapel Hill, NC\nTuesday, October 27, 2026 \n\" src=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/common\/controls\/image_handler.aspx?thumb_prefix=rp_primary&#038;image_path=\/images\/2026\/10\/27\/Thomas_Kevin.Charlotte.mbb.02541001.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 117th season of Carolina basketball begins on Monday, November 2, when the Tar Heels play host to Western Carolina in the Smith Center at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/news\/2026\/11\/1\/mens-basketball-set-to-open-2026-27-monday-vs-western-carolina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 117th season of Carolina basketball begins on Monday, November 2, when the Tar Heels play host to Western Carolina in the Smith Center at 7&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1941427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1941426","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\/1941426","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=1941426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941428,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941426\/revisions\/1941428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1941427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1941426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1941426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1941426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}