{"id":586252,"date":"2018-02-28T17:31:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T22:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=586252"},"modified":"2026-07-25T23:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T03:51:08","slug":"holliday-heading-into-march-the-wolfpack-keep-improving-the-stats-dont-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=586252","title":{"rendered":"Holliday: Heading into March, the Wolfpack keep improving &#8211; the stats don&#8217;t lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/heading-into-march-the-wolfpack-keep-improving-the-stats-don-t-lie\/17380771\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/ncsu\/2018\/02\/25\/17373301\/2018NCSUBBvFSU-15-DMID1-5dy4hh37k-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"NCSU 92, FSU 72\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>After watching NC State beat Arizona, I tweeted that the Wolfpack would be better than expected and would compete for a spot in the ACC&#8217;s upper division. As I write this, I am hearing the voice of Lucy Holliday, my grandmother, telling me to &#8220;be careful, don&#8217;t break your arm putting yourself on the back.&#8221; I have to admit I did wonder a few times if I had been too optimistic about the Pack early on. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/heading-into-march-the-wolfpack-keep-improving-the-stats-don-t-lie\/17380771\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/heading-into-march-the-wolfpack-keep-improving-the-stats-don-t-lie\/17380771\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Holliday: Heading into March, the Wolfpack keep improving - the stats don&#039;t lie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After watching NC State beat Arizona, I tweeted that the Wolfpack would be better than expected and would compete for a spot in the ACC&#8217;s upper&#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-586252","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\/586252","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=586252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1912778,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586252\/revisions\/1912778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}