{"id":6934,"date":"2014-03-20T22:08:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T02:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=6934"},"modified":"2014-03-20T22:24:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T02:24:04","slug":"state-blows-a-16-point-lead-to-bow-out-of-ncaas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=6934","title":{"rendered":"State blows a 16-point lead to bow out of NCAAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/statebball.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/statebball.jpg\" alt=\"statebball\" width=\"183\" height=\"181\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/statebball.jpg 183w, https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/statebball-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/statebball-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a>NC State, in command with a 16-point lead with eight minutes to go, could not withstand Saint Louis full-court pressure or hit free throws down the stretch in an 83-80 overtime loss.<\/p>\n<p>State&#8217;s TJ Warren scored 28 points but could not hit from the free throw line in regulation or overtime, going six of 14 in addition to committing a lane violation while shooting what would have been a good free throw. He fouled out with 28 seconds left in overtime.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Lewis had a chance to win it in regulation with a 12-footer than rimmed out at the buzzer.<\/p>\n<p>Saint Louis got out to an early 9-6 lead but didn&#8217;t lead again until overtime.<\/p>\n<p>The Pack led by double digits at 30-19 in the first half but went into the half up by only four at 30-26. Quickly the Pack regained control of the game in the second half, working the lead up to 55-39 with 8:11 left, until falling apart at the end. <\/p>\n<p>NC State hit only 20 of 37 free throws for the game, missing six free throws in the last 2:11 of regulation. <\/p>\n<p>State&#8217;s Ralston Turner had a chance to send the game into a second overtime with a three at the buzzer but, despite being on line, came up a little short.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/collegebasketball\/gametracker\/boxscore\/NCAAB_20140320_NCST@STLOU\" target=\"_blank\">Boxscore<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NC State, in command with a 16-point lead with eight minutes to go, could not withstand Saint Louis full-court pressure or hit free throws down the&#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-6934","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\/6934","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=6934"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6944,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions\/6944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}