{"id":143206,"date":"2025-09-14T19:07:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T19:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/143206\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T19:07:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T19:07:18","slug":"dionte-neal-commits-to-unc-greensboro-for-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/143206\/","title":{"rendered":"Dionte Neal commits to UNC Greensboro for basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement was followed by a community cookout at Lake Reidsville.<\/p>\n<p>REIDSVILLE, N.C. \u2014 Reidsville High School junior \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmynews2.com\/article\/sports\/local-sports\/dionte-neal-accepts-gatorade-player-of-the-year-award-reidsville\/83-a6e1b235-75af-4add-868b-ed393af9023d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" id=\"isPasted\">Dionte Neal, a two-sport standout<\/a> and the 2024-25 Gatorade Player of the Year for North Carolina boys basketball, announced Sunday that he will continue his basketball career at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.<\/p>\n<p>Neal made his decision during a 2 p.m. ceremony at Reidsville High School\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/16qbCXh652\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" id=\"isPasted\">\u00a0gymnasium<\/a>, streamed live on WFMY News 2 and WFMY+.<\/p>\n<p>A 5-foot-9 point guard, Neal has led the Rams to back-to-back NCHSAA 2A state championships. This season, he averaged 22.9 points, 9.3 assists and 7.1 steals per game, while shooting 62.6% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to basketball, Neal is a standout on the football field, making him one of the state\u2019s top dual-sport athletes.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was followed by a community cookout at Lake Reidsville.<\/p>\n<p>Neal had offers from several programs, including Boston College, North Carolina, Old Dominion, Duke and Appalachian State, before choosing UNC Greensboro for basketball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The announcement was followed by a community cookout at Lake Reidsville. REIDSVILLE, N.C. \u2014 Reidsville High School junior&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-143206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}