{"id":405523,"date":"2016-12-13T06:48:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T11:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=405523"},"modified":"2026-07-26T14:19:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:19:44","slug":"top-10-matchup-of-powers-kentucky-unc-headlines-week-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=405523","title":{"rendered":"Top-10 matchup of powers Kentucky, UNC headlines week ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/top-10-matchup-of-powers-kentucky-unc-headlines-week-ahead\/16335645\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/basketball\/college_basketball\/2016\/12\/11\/16332483\/16332518-1481629556-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee North Carolina Basketball\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Kentucky has already spent time at No. 1 in the AP Top 25 , while North Carolina got off to a strong start that had some calling the Tar Heels the nation&#8217;s best team. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/top-10-matchup-of-powers-kentucky-unc-headlines-week-ahead\/16335645\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/top-10-matchup-of-powers-kentucky-unc-headlines-week-ahead\/16335645\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Top-10 matchup of powers Kentucky, UNC headlines week ahead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kentucky has already spent time at No. 1 in the AP Top 25 , while North Carolina got off to a strong start that had some&#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-405523","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\/405523","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=405523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1923750,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405523\/revisions\/1923750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}