{"id":959,"date":"2011-01-31T15:08:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T20:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=959"},"modified":"2011-01-31T15:10:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T20:10:58","slug":"959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=959","title":{"rendered":"Hoops 4 Hope a success despite poor choice of date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sixth annual Hoops 4 Hope game was held Sunday at Reynolds Coliseum, and despite some poor timing, appeared to be a success.<\/p>\n<p>N.C. State had a good crowd at Reynolds and the Wolfpack women&#8217;s team put on a strong performance, rallying from a big deficit before falling to Florida State, 76-69. The game raised $53,000, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/2011\/01\/31\/957659\/cancer-survivors-walk-for-life.html\">according to The News &amp; Observer,<\/a> for the Kay Yow Cancer fund.<\/p>\n<p>This is a worthy cause, and you have to commemorate NCSU for continuing the game and honoring their late coach. But the game was overlooked in a market consumed with the NHL All-Star Game. Women&#8217;s basketball doesn&#8217;t get much attention in the market, from media or fans, and this was a prime showcase for the game and a great cause. It just seemed unfortunate that the game wound up being played at a time when many had their attention focused elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sixth annual Hoops 4 Hope game was held Sunday at Reynolds Coliseum, and despite some poor timing, appeared to be a success. N.C. State&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959","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\/959","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}