{"id":695576,"date":"2018-12-19T23:02:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T04:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=695576"},"modified":"2026-07-25T23:48:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T03:48:52","slug":"wolfpack-keatts-show-they-belong-in-the-top-25-whether-or-not-they-care-about-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=695576","title":{"rendered":"Wolfpack, Keatts show they belong in the top 25, whether or not they care about that"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/wolfpack-keatts-show-they-belong-in-the-top-25-whether-or-not-they-care-about-that\/18075944\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/ncsu\/2018\/03\/03\/17390203\/2018NCSUBBvLville-49-DMID1-5h6vjb0og-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"NCSU 76, Louisville 69\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>NC State knocked off No. 7 Auburn at home in PNC Arena by a final score of 78-71.  It&#8217;s the fourth top-10 win in Kevin Keatts&#8217; second season as head coach. The Wolfpack is off to its best start (10-1) since the 2005-06 season. Markell Johnson led all scorers with 27 points, 19 of which came in the second half. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/wolfpack-keatts-show-they-belong-in-the-top-25-whether-or-not-they-care-about-that\/18075944\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/wolfpack-keatts-show-they-belong-in-the-top-25-whether-or-not-they-care-about-that\/18075944\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Wolfpack, Keatts show they belong in the top 25, whether or not they care about that\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NC State knocked off No. 7 Auburn at home in PNC Arena by a final score of 78-71. It&#8217;s the fourth top-10 win in Kevin Keatts&#8217;&#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-695576","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\/695576","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=695576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1912612,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695576\/revisions\/1912612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}