{"id":17156,"date":"2023-09-19T20:33:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T01:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/?p=17156"},"modified":"2023-09-19T20:33:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T01:33:22","slug":"breaking-mj-rice-to-step-away-from-nc-state-program-due-to-personal-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/breaking-mj-rice-to-step-away-from-nc-state-program-due-to-personal-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: MJ Rice to step away from NC State program due to \u2018personal reasons\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NC State wing <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/mj-rice-90055\/\">MJ Rice<\/a><\/strong> will step away from the program due to personal reasons, he announced in a Tweet Tuesday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy commitment to NC State has not changed,\u201d Rice wrote. \u201cI appreciate everything coach Keatts and his staff have done for me. For personal reasons, I needed to step away from basketball for a period of time, but [I\u2019m] excited to be back with my teammates soon!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rice, a former McDonald\u2019s All-American, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/nc-state-wolfpack\/news\/nc-state-basketball-mj-rice-commit\/\">transferred <\/a>to the Wolfpack from Kansas in April. He was the No. 29 overall prospect in the 2022 class, according to the On3 Industry Rankings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a freshman with the Jayhawks, Rice averaged 2.2 points in 7.5 minutes a game across 23 contests before he returned to his home state as a native of Henderson, N.C.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rice was one of seven players to join the Wolfpack through the transfer portal this offseason, and was expected to be an impact player for NC State as a blue-chip high school recruit.\u00a0He was the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/transfer-portal\/top\/basketball\/2023\/?position=sf\"> No. 45 small forward<\/a> in the transfer portal when the Wolfpack landed him in April. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear how long Rice will be away from the program, but he appears to be set on returning to the Wolfpack once he\u2019s ready.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/nc-state-wolfpack\/news\/mj-rice-steps-away-nc-state\/\">BREAKING: MJ Rice to step away from NC State program due to \u2018personal reasons\u2019<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/admin.on3.com\/\">On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NC State wing MJ Rice will step away from the program due to personal reasons,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}