{"id":4677,"date":"2012-11-20T23:36:35","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T04:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=4677"},"modified":"2012-11-20T23:36:35","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T04:36:35","slug":"heels-get-way-down-cant-catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=4677","title":{"rendered":"Heels get way down, can&#8217;t catch up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina, behind 35-18 at the half, got down by 29 points in the second half to Butler, fought back to within six before finally falling 82-71 in the semi-finals of the Maui Invitational. (11\/20)<\/p>\n<p>It was the first time since 1998 that the Tar Heels scored fewer than 20 points in a half and it was the first time in six visits to Maui that the Heels have failed to make the finals.<\/p>\n<p>It was a far cry from the previous night&#8217;s 95-49 win over Mississippi State. &#8220;It was so easy last night, perhaps we were fat and happy at the start,&#8221; UNC coach Roy Williams said.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina, which trailed by double figures most of the game, never led as Butler raced out to a 10-2 lead.<\/p>\n<p>For more on the game, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cb3media.com\/heelprints\">please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina, behind 35-18 at the half, got down by 29 points in the second half to Butler, fought back to within six before finally&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/4677","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=4677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4678,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677\/revisions\/4678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}