{"id":1941788,"date":"2026-11-03T06:23:55","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T11:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1941788"},"modified":"2026-11-03T07:12:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T12:12:56","slug":"cones-on-the-rim-scores-kept-on-stops-how-unc-is-trying-to-fix-rebounding-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1941788","title":{"rendered":"Cones on the rim, scores kept on stops: How UNC is trying to fix rebounding problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 The drills have no hoops, and in some cases a cone sits on top of the basket, a setup North Carolina\u2019s coaches hope will teach players that they win rebounds through positioning and effort. After the Tar Heels got outrebounded in their last two exhibition games, it happened again in Monday\u2019s 80\u201372 opening-game win at the Smith Center over Western Carolina. The coaches are trying to fix the problem, but the progress was hard to spot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/11\/03\/cones-on-the-rim-scores-kept-on-stops-how-unc-is-trying-to-fix-rebounding-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 The drills have no hoops, and in some cases a cone sits on top of the basket, a setup North Carolina\u2019s coaches hope&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1941789,"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\/2026\/11\/image-5.png?fit=904%2C674&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1941788","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\/1941788","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=1941788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941790,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941788\/revisions\/1941790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1941789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1941788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1941788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1941788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}