{"id":759,"date":"2010-08-12T10:46:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T14:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=759"},"modified":"2010-08-12T10:46:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T14:46:21","slug":"bahamian-basketball-teams-play-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/08\/bahamian-basketball-teams-play-north-carolina","title":{"rendered":"Bahamian Basketball Teams Play North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-762\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"basketball\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/basketball.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/basketball.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/basketball-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The UNC basketball team had no trouble in its first Bahamian exhibition matchup, putting away the Commonwealth Bank Giants 130-87.<\/p>\n<p>The Tar Heels pounded the Giants behind a double-double from rising junior Tyler Zeller, who posted 22 points and 13 rebounds.\u00a0 Rising sophomores Dexter Strickland and John Henson also made big contributions, with Strickland scoring 18 points and Henson amassing several blocks, although only two showed up on the stat sheet.<\/p>\n<p>But Carolina also got a scoring infusion from touted freshmen Harrison Barnes and Reggie Bullock.\u00a0 Barnes lived up to his top recruit status, as the Iowa native scored 21 points while going 3-for-5 from 3-point territory.\u00a0 Bullock proved he belonged with the best of Carolina&#8217;s players, chipping in 21 points of his own while shooting 69% from the floor<\/p>\n<p>Carolina will look to play a more disciplined game against the Bahamas All-Stars tonight, as they allowed the Giants to shoot a whopping 53 free throws.<\/p>\n<p>By Ben Gellman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Bank Giants lost to the UNC Tar Heels but the Bahamas All-Stars have still have a winning chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}