{"id":387229,"date":"2016-09-19T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=387229"},"modified":"2026-07-26T14:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:20:07","slug":"north-carolina-set-to-begin-defense-of-coastal-title-against-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=387229","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina set to begin defense of Coastal title against Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/sports\/college_sports\/north-carolina-set-to-begin-defense-of-coastal-title-against\/article_39cc2e1d-769c-50dd-80d5-820480749d81.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/fayobserver.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/2\/89\/28927090-ad1c-52d6-9717-052c31672b78\/57e05fff33d4d.image.jpg?resize=300,194\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>CHAPEL HILL &#8211; Having the words &#8220;defending champions&#8221; proceed their school name won&#8217;t carry any weight for the North Carolina Tar Heels on Saturday when they open Atlantic Coast Conference play against Pittsburgh. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/sports\/college_sports\/north-carolina-set-to-begin-defense-of-coastal-title-against\/article_39cc2e1d-769c-50dd-80d5-820480749d81.html\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/sports\/college_sports\/north-carolina-set-to-begin-defense-of-coastal-title-against\/article_39cc2e1d-769c-50dd-80d5-820480749d81.html\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"North Carolina set to begin defense of Coastal title against Pittsburgh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fayetteville Observer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL &#8211; Having the words &#8220;defending champions&#8221; proceed their school name won&#8217;t carry any weight for the North Carolina Tar Heels on Saturday when they&#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-387229","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\/387229","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=387229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1923797,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387229\/revisions\/1923797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}