{"id":583906,"date":"2018-02-25T07:45:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T12:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=583906"},"modified":"2026-07-26T00:24:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T04:24:39","slug":"payne-after-early-acc-punch-in-the-face-ncsu-answers-with-successful-season-of-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=583906","title":{"rendered":"Payne: After early ACC &#8216;punch in the face,&#8217; NCSU answers with successful season of growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/nc-state-ncaa-tourney-perspective\/17372053\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/ncsu\/2018\/02\/20\/17358465\/2018NCSUBBvBC-53-DMID1-5dwrp3ja4-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"NCSU beats Boston College, 82-66\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>NC State starts the last seven days of the regular season with an opportunity to clinch a double-bye in the ACC Tournament and finish with as many as 22 regular-season wins. The opportunity to play in the NCAA Tournament is still very real for the Wolfpack, too. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/nc-state-ncaa-tourney-perspective\/17372053\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/nc-state-ncaa-tourney-perspective\/17372053\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Payne: After early ACC &#039;punch in the face,&#039; NCSU answers with successful season of growth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NC State starts the last seven days of the regular season with an opportunity to clinch a double-bye in the ACC Tournament and finish with as&#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-583906","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\/583906","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=583906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1915281,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583906\/revisions\/1915281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}