{"id":6977,"date":"2014-03-25T22:30:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=6977"},"modified":"2014-03-25T22:34:25","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T02:34:25","slug":"deshields-leads-tar-heels-into-the-sweet-sixteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=6977","title":{"rendered":"DeShields leads Tar Heels into the Sweet Sixteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6978\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6978\" style=\"width: 131px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/deshields.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/deshields.jpg\" alt=\"Diamond DeShields.\" width=\"131\" height=\"151\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6978\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6978\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diamond DeShields.<\/figcaption><\/figure>Diamond DeShields almost singlehandedly put North Carolina into the Sweet 16 of NCAA Women&#8217;s Tournament by scoring 24 points and hauling in a season-high 12 rebounds to lead the Tar Heels over Michigan State 62-53 in Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first double-double for the freshman guard.<\/p>\n<p>The Tar Heels, now 26-9, is the only Triangle team left in the tournament and will play in Sunday&#8217;s Stanford Regional semifinal.<\/p>\n<p>In the first round, North Carolina had to rally from 18 down in the second half to beat UT Martin 60-58.<br \/>\n<!-- iFrame Code --><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nvar paEmbedId = 1109757;\nvar paEmbedWidth = 475;\nvar paEmbedOemId = 3350;\nvar paServer = 'http:\/\/www.goheels.com\/';\nvar paIframe = true;\n<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.goheels.com\/oemjs\/0\/PhotoAlbum2009Embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diamond DeShields almost singlehandedly put North Carolina into the Sweet 16 of NCAA Women&#8217;s Tournament by scoring 24 points and hauling in a season-high 12&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6977","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\/6977","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=6977"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6983,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977\/revisions\/6983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}