{"id":1942521,"date":"2026-11-07T16:51:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T21:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1942521"},"modified":"2026-11-07T17:22:37","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T22:22:37","slug":"heels-finish-off-uconn-with-strong-defense-big-late-plays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1942521","title":{"rendered":"Heels finish off UConn with strong defense, big late plays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EAST HARTFORD, Conn. \u2014 Putting teams away has been a season-long problem for North Carolina, but the Tar Heels finally solved it in at least one game. On a rainy afternoon at Rentschler Field, UNC did the job with strong defense and a big late fourth-down conversion. The Tar Heels held UConn scoreless for the last 25 minutes in a 38\u201321 victory Saturday and are a win away from bowl eligibility with their third straight road win.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/11\/07\/heels-finish-off-uconn-with-strong-defense-big-late-plays\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST HARTFORD, Conn. \u2014 Putting teams away has been a season-long problem for North Carolina, but the Tar Heels finally solved it in at least one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1942522,"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-31.png?resize=1024%2C495&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1942521","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\/1942521","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=1942521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1942523,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942521\/revisions\/1942523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1942522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1942521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1942521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1942521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}