{"id":4666,"date":"2012-11-18T20:49:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T01:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=4666"},"modified":"2012-11-18T20:49:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T01:49:56","slug":"state-leslie-implode-as-oklahoma-state-rolls-in-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=4666","title":{"rendered":"State, Leslie implode as Oklahoma State rolls in Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No. 6 N.C. State was favored to win the Puerto Rico Tip-off tournament but Oklahoma State exploded for a 76-56 win as the Pack imploded.<\/p>\n<p>State&#8217;s C.J. Leslie got in foul trouble and didn&#8217;t start the second half. When he did get in there he committed a foul and cursed the official, picking up a technical that counted as his fifth foul. With Leslie fouled out and sulking on the bench, the Pack didn&#8217;t put up much of a fight the rest of the way.<\/p>\n<p>The Pack lost each half by an identical 38-28 score. State, led by Rodney Purvis&#8217; 16 points, managed only 35 percent from the floor and 50 percent from the foul line. In addition, Oklahoma State outrebounded N.C. State 42-27.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys&#8217; Le&#8217;Bryan Nash led all scorers with 23 points. Leslie scored just two points in 17 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/collegebasketball\/gametracker\/boxscore\/NCAAB_20121118_OKLAST@NCST\" target=\"_blank\">Boxscore<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. 6 N.C. State was favored to win the Puerto Rico Tip-off tournament but Oklahoma State exploded for a 76-56 win as the Pack imploded&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666","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=4666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4668,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666\/revisions\/4668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}