{"id":92344,"date":"2025-08-18T17:21:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/92344\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T17:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:21:06","slug":"nc-state-basketball-exhibition-double-header-set-for-oct-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/92344\/","title":{"rendered":"NC State basketball exhibition double header set for Oct. 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Our first opportunity to see the 2026 men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball teams will come in <a href=\"https:\/\/gopack.com\/news\/2025\/8\/18\/mens-basketball-nc-state-mens-and-womens-basketball-to-play-doubleheader-exhibition-in-greensboro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Greensboro on Sunday, Oct. 26<\/a>. The women will take on Maryland at 2 p.m., followed by the men against South Carolina at 4:30. Tickets will be available on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Maryland back in Greensboro? Be still, Gary Williams\u2019 heart!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">South Carolina is coming off a 12-20 season and a last-place finish in the SEC, though the Gamecocks were a solid No. 69 (nice) in the Pomeroy Ratings. Maryland went 25-8, earned a four-seed in the NCAA tournament, and reached the Sweet Sixteen. Pretty good chance State wins both games, though I\u2019d imagine there will be a lot of lineup experimentation all around, which will add uncertainty to the outcomes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Not sure if these games are going to merit televised coverage, but one can hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our first opportunity to see the 2026 men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball teams will come in Greensboro on Sunday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,62865,62866,398,400,401,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-92344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nc-state-basketball","10":"tag-nc-state-womens-hoops","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaabasketball","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}