{"id":549439,"date":"2017-10-25T17:48:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T21:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=549439"},"modified":"2017-10-25T17:48:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T21:48:51","slug":"pick-us-last-please-nc-state-embracing-low-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=549439","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Pick us last, please:&#8217; NC State embracing low expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/-pick-us-last-please-nc-state-embracing-low-expectations\/17049663\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/basketball\/college_basketball\/2017\/10\/25\/17048264\/media_ae22dcf3e36240f0aa0a6acd8dbc51e3-DMID1-5ck38h4mb-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"ACC_Media_Day_Basketball_44793\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>While the ACC won&#8217;t release its preseason poll until Thursday, it was clear on Wednesday that NC State is embracing lower expectations that are the result of massive roster turnover and a new head coach arriving in Raleigh. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/-pick-us-last-please-nc-state-embracing-low-expectations\/17049663\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/-pick-us-last-please-nc-state-embracing-low-expectations\/17049663\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"&#039;Pick us last, please:&#039; NC State embracing low expectations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the ACC won&#8217;t release its preseason poll until Thursday, it was clear on Wednesday that NC State is embracing lower expectations that are the result&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549439","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=549439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}