{"id":1944456,"date":"2026-11-15T18:07:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T23:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1944456"},"modified":"2026-11-15T18:22:41","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T23:22:41","slug":"heels-earn-historic-win-over-no-1-smu-fourth-acc-mens-title-to-hand-mustangs-first-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1944456","title":{"rendered":"Heels earn historic win over No. 1 SMU, fourth ACC men\u2019s title to hand Mustangs first loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CARY \u2014 Next to North Carolina\u2019s two national championship victories, the Tar Heels\u2019 win over top-ranked SMU will have a significant place in the history books. The No. 12 Tar Heels extended their unbeaten streak to 12 with a 3\u20130 win in the ACC men\u2019s soccer championship game Sunday at WakeMed Soccer Park. Behind a goal from tournament MVP Joschi Schelb and two from Ryan Zellefrow, that handed the Mustangs their first loss of the season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/11\/15\/heels-earn-historic-win-over-no-1-smu-fourth-acc-mens-title-to-hand-mustangs-first-loss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARY \u2014 Next to North Carolina\u2019s two national championship victories, the Tar Heels\u2019 win over top-ranked SMU will have a significant place in the history books&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1944457,"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\/2022\/01\/image-e1793413851457-1024x223.png?resize=1024%2C223&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1944456","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\/1944456","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=1944456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1944458,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944456\/revisions\/1944458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1944457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1944456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1944456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1944456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}