{"id":359070,"date":"2016-08-05T18:41:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T22:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=359070"},"modified":"2026-07-26T14:00:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:00:48","slug":"losing-end-to-2015-pushes-tar-heels-to-set-new-standard-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=359070","title":{"rendered":"Losing end to 2015 pushes Tar Heels to set new standard in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/losing-end-to-2015-pushes-tar-heels-to-set-new-standard-in-2016\/15906026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/2015\/11\/28\/15142144\/15142144-1470435685-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"UNC builds big lead, beats NC State 45-34\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>North Carolina begins its 2016 campaign ranked No. 20 in the nation, but there was no mention of that on the first day of August training camp. The 2015 season &#8212; with an undefeated home record, ACC Coastal Division Championship, 11-3 record and No. 15 final ranking &#8212; is motivation enough for the Tar Heels, but the motivation isn&#8217;t the celebratory kind. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/losing-end-to-2015-pushes-tar-heels-to-set-new-standard-in-2016\/15906026\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/losing-end-to-2015-pushes-tar-heels-to-set-new-standard-in-2016\/15906026\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Losing end to 2015 pushes Tar Heels to set new standard in 2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina begins its 2016 campaign ranked No. 20 in the nation, but there was no mention of that on the first day of August training&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359070","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1922186,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359070\/revisions\/1922186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}