{"id":556640,"date":"2017-12-15T14:02:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T19:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=556640"},"modified":"2026-07-26T00:25:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T04:25:17","slug":"by-the-numbers-defense-takes-center-stage-in-ncsu-uncg-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=556640","title":{"rendered":"By the numbers: Defense takes center stage in NCSU-UNCG matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/by-the-numbers-defense-takes-center-stage-in-ncsu-uncg-matchup\/17188221\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/ncsu\/2017\/11\/29\/17150479\/2017ncsubbvpsu-38-DMID1-5d4abg2a2-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"NC State downs Penn State, 85-78\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s no secret that North Carolina State has tried to up its defensive intensity under first-year head coach Kevin Keatts. The Wolfpack (8-2) are consistently pressuring teams full court, and it&#8217;s paying off &#8211; NC State is forcing better than 17 turnovers a game, currently tied for 29th best in the country and the top mark for any ACC team through the first five weeks of the season. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/by-the-numbers-defense-takes-center-stage-in-ncsu-uncg-matchup\/17188221\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/by-the-numbers-defense-takes-center-stage-in-ncsu-uncg-matchup\/17188221\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"By the numbers: Defense takes center stage in NCSU-UNCG matchup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that North Carolina State has tried to up its defensive intensity under first-year head coach Kevin Keatts. The Wolfpack (8-2) are consistently pressuring&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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\/556640","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=556640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1915377,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556640\/revisions\/1915377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}