{"id":6750,"date":"2014-03-01T17:09:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T22:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=6750"},"modified":"2014-03-01T17:09:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T22:09:06","slug":"carolina-grinds-out-11th-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=6750","title":{"rendered":"Carolina grinds out 11th straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Roy Williams.<\/figcaption><\/figure>North Carolina scrapped out a 60-56 win against a deliberate Virginia Tech team to give the Tar Heels their 11th straight victory.<\/p>\n

The Tar Heels held the lead most of the way and while the game result rarely seemed in danger, they couldn’t pull away either. Poor foul shooting ensured that.<\/p>\n

Carolina missed seven second-half free throws including five in the last minute and a half as Virginia Tech made it iffy at the end. Leslie McDonald hit the second of two free throws with 4.8 seconds left to wrap up the win.<\/p>\n

“I screamed at Leslie for him to hit the free throw,” UNC coach Roy Williams said. “That was very intelligent.”<\/p>\n

But he was frustrated that the Virginia Tech zone defense bothered his club throughout and his players couldn’t seem to hit free throws down the stretch.<\/p>\n

“It was a workmanlike effort for us,” Williams said, praising James Michael McAdoo’s second half effort.<\/p>\n

McAdoo scored 12 of his 15 points in the second half including eight during a four-minute stretch late.<\/p>\n

A power dunk by McAdoo with 6:56 left put the Heels up by nine, their largest lead of the game, at 49-40.<\/p>\n

For more on the game, please click here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

North Carolina scrapped out a 60-56 win against a deliberate Virginia Tech team to give the Tar Heels their 11th straight victory. The Tar Heels…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6750","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=6750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6752,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6750\/revisions\/6752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}