{"id":7717,"date":"2014-11-14T23:14:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T04:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=7717"},"modified":"2014-11-14T23:14:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T04:14:12","slug":"heels-open-season-with-a-bland-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=7717","title":{"rendered":"Heels open season with a bland win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7718\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7718\" style=\"width: 191px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bricejohnson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bricejohnson.jpg\" alt=\"Brice Johnson.\" width=\"191\" height=\"298\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7718\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7718\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brice Johnson.<\/figcaption><\/figure>After all the non-basketball talk, UNC must at least be happy to talk about on-the-court problems now.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina jumped out to an 11-0 lead in the season opener and used balanced scoring in an overall uninspiring 76-60 over NC Central in Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a \u2018W,\u2019\u201d UNC coach Roy Williams said blandly. \u201cNot the prettiest thing in the world but Coach (Levelle) Moton\u2019s bunch did some good things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NCCU went to the zone and bottled up UNC guard Marcus Paige, who was chosen by ACC media as the preseason player of the year, with a box in one. Paige finished with just eight points on a 2 for 8 performance from the field.<\/p>\n<p>The Tar Heels, who led by as many as 14 points in the first half, had their lead cut to nine at 28-19 at the half.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina started hot in the second half, extending the lead to 36-20 on a pair of old-fashioned three-point plays by freshman starter Justin Jackson and Isiah Hicks, along with a baseline jumper by JP Tokoto.<\/p>\n<p>For more, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cb3media.com\/heelprints\" target=\"_blank\">please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all the non-basketball talk, UNC must at least be happy to talk about on-the-court problems now. North Carolina jumped out to an 11-0 lead&#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-7717","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\/7717","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=7717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7719,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7717\/revisions\/7719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}