{"id":8079,"date":"2015-03-13T21:04:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T01:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=8079"},"modified":"2015-03-13T21:05:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T01:05:08","slug":"states-barber-cleared-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=8079","title":{"rendered":"State&#8217;s Barber cleared to play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_8081\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8081\" style=\"width: 105px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/barber.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/barber.jpg\" alt=\"Cat Barber.\" width=\"105\" height=\"145\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8081\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat Barber.<\/figcaption><\/figure>NC State sophomore point guard Anthony &#8216;Cat&#8217; Barber has been cleared to play after suffering a spasm in his neck muscles. <\/p>\n<p>Barber, a native of Newport News, Va., will continue to receive treatment and is expected to be at full strength for NC State&#8217;s postseason play next week.<\/p>\n<p>Barber was under the care and supervision of NC State&#8217;s sports medicine personnel since the injury on Thursday night. On Friday evening, he received a computed tomography (X-ray CT) scan of his head and neck. The tests all came back normal.<\/p>\n<p>The injury occurred at the 13:26 mark in the second half of NC State&#8217;s ACC Tournament contest vs. Duke. <\/p>\n<p>Barber averages 12.1 points per game and leads the Wolfpack  with 3.81 assists per game. He has been a breakout player in recent weeks for NC State, averaging 16.0 points over the last 11 games. He scored a career-high 34 points in NC State&#8217;s ACC Tournament victory over Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>NC State owns a 20-13 record and is currently listed as No. 39 in the ESPN.com Daily RPI. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NC State sophomore point guard Anthony &#8216;Cat&#8217; Barber has been cleared to play after suffering a spasm in his neck muscles. Barber, a native of&#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-8079","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\/8079","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=8079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8082,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079\/revisions\/8082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}