{"id":6697,"date":"2014-02-15T22:04:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T03:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=6697"},"modified":"2014-02-15T22:56:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T03:56:08","slug":"wolfpack-scares-syracuse-but-falters-at-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=6697","title":{"rendered":"Wolfpack scares Syracuse but falters at the end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/syracuselogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/syracuselogo.jpg\" alt=\"syracuselogo\" width=\"227\" height=\"173\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6698\" \/><\/a>NC State, at undefeated and No. 1 Syracuse, played the Orange close throughout and had a good chance to win at the end but instead turned the ball over leading to a winning Syracuse layup with seven seconds left.<\/p>\n<p>The Wolfpack&#8217;s TJ Warren threw up a three that hit the front of the rim and bounded away, and Syracuse escaped at home by a 56-55 score.<\/p>\n<p>The Pack trailed 52-51 when Syracuse&#8217;s Tyler Ennis fouled State&#8217;s Ralston Turner as he was shooting a three. Turner, an average free throw shooter at best, drained all three foul shots to put State up 54-52 with just 1:02 left.<\/p>\n<p>Syracuse&#8217;s CJ Fair drew a foul with 41 seconds left but hit only one of the two free throws to leave State still up, 55-54.<\/p>\n<p>But State made mistakes to help Syracuse. First, Desmond Lee dribbled the ball off his foot out of bounds after a Syracuse double-team. The Pack got a break of their own when Syracuse&#8217;s Ennis pushed off with just 15 seconds left, giving the ball back to State.<\/p>\n<p>After a Syracuse foul, that the State bench thought should have been a continuation bucket by Warren and a free throw, the Wolfpack needed to inbound it and eat clock. Instead, Syracuse&#8217;s Rakeem Christmas came up with a steal. Ennis passed to Fair, who went in for a layup with less than seven seconds to go. The ball went in and bounced out because of a State basket interference.<\/p>\n<p>The Wolfpack falls to 16-9 overall, 6-6 in ACC. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/collegebasketball\/gametracker\/boxscore\/NCAAB_20140215_NCST@CUSE\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Boxscore<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NC State, at undefeated and No. 1 Syracuse, played the Orange close throughout and had a good chance to win at the end but instead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6697","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\/6697","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=6697"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6703,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6697\/revisions\/6703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}