North Carolina State Game Notes | Texas Tech Game Notes
PITTSBURGH, Pa. – The North Carolina State University men's basketball team opens the NCAA Tournament Thursday night against Texas Tech at PPG Paints Arena.
Tipoff against the Red Raiders is scheduled for 9:40 p.m., and the game will be televised on CBS. NC State fans can also listen to Gary Hearn and Tony Haynes call him in action on the Wolfpack Sports Network.
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– North Carolina State completed an improbable run to the ACC Championship by defeating No. 1 seed North Carolina 84-76 in the ACC Tournament championship game Saturday night.
– With the win, the 10th-seeded Pack became the first team below the No. 8 seed to win the ACC Tournament, the second team to win five games in five days to win the conference tournament, and the 2011 UConn Joined the Huskies (Big East). ).
– The ACC Championship is the 11th in program history (first since 1987) and third-most in the ACC.
– NC State opened up a 14-4 lead and led for much of the first half, but a last-second 3-pointer gave the Tar Heels a 40-39 advantage at halftime. With 18 minutes and 16 seconds remaining, he hit a layup by DJ Barnes, giving North Carolina State a 45-43 advantage, and the Pack would not relinquish the lead the rest of the game. The Pack's lead was just three points, 61-58, with just over eight minutes left, but NC State went on a 13-5 run over the next five minutes to take a 74-63 lead with 3:31 left. Ta. UNC never got closer than seven the rest of the way.
– DJ Barnes Jr. was named tournament MVP after scoring 20 points on 9-of-12 shooting (including his first 3-pointer in his 160th career game) and tying a career-high with seven assists. I got it. In this tournament, Barnes Jr. averaged 15.2 points per game and shot 62.7 percent from the field. He stepped up his play even more in the final two games of the tournament, averaging 19.5 points and shooting 73.9 percent (17-of-23) from the field in the semifinals and finals.
– Burns Jr. joins teammates DJ Horn and Michael O'Connell on the All-Tournament First Team. Horn averaged 17.8 points per game in the tournament, including a team-high 29 points on 9-of-15 shooting in the championship game win against North Carolina. O'Connell averaged 13.2 points per game and hit the best shot in the tournament, hitting a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to send the Pack's semifinal game against Virginia into overtime.
ACC Tournament Recap
– North Carolina State won its 11th ACC Tournament Championship last Saturday, the third-most in conference history. This is his first ACC title with the Pack since 1987.
– NC State is the second team to win a conference tournament by winning five games in five days, joining the 2011 UConn Huskies.
– Six ACC teams have won the NCAA National Championship. North Carolina State University is one of his. It won the ACC Championship by defeating five other cars. (Louisville, Syracuse, Duke, Virginia, North Carolina).
– The Wolfpack became the first team seeded No. 8 or lower to win the ACC Tournament.
– NC State is also the first No. 10 seed or lower to win a Power 6 conference tournament.
– NC State appeared in the ACC Championship for the 18th time in program history.
– The Wolfpack is the first team to play five games in just five days in the ACC Tournament.
– DJ Barnes Jr. is the first NC State player to win ACC Tournament MVP since Vinny Del Negro in 1987.
– Mohamed Diarra totaled 60 rebounds during the Wolfpack's tournament run, the most rebounds by a player in a single ACC tournament. It surpassed the previous record of 56 by Wake Forest's Tim Duncan in 1996.
– NC State ran a balanced attack throughout the tournament. The Pack had different leading scorers in the first four games of the tournament.
– The Pack had seven different players score in double figures in the tournament, and all of those players had at least two double-digit scoring games in the tournament.
– Entering the tournament, Michael O'Connell had only scored in double figures in three games and had made 14 3-pointers in 31 regular season games. In five games in the ACC Tournament, O'Connell scored in double figures in every game and made nine 3-pointers.
– Mohamed Diarra had two double-doubles in 30 regular season games and then two double-doubles in five games in the ACC tournament. Diarra's double-doubles in the ACC tournament came against Duke (14 points/16 rebounds) and North Carolina (11 points/14 rebounds).
North Carolina State in the NCAA Tournament
– This is the Pack's second consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance and 29th all-time. North Carolina State holds his all-time record of 37-26 in the NCAA Tournament.
– North Carolina State is 2-0 in NCAA Tournament games played at PPG Paints Arena. The Pack went to Pittsburgh in 2015 as the No. 8 seed. They defeated No. 9 seed LSU in the first round and defeated No. 1 seed Villanova to advance to the Sweet 16. A victory over Villanova on March 21, 2015 was North Carolina State's last NCAA Tournament win.
NC State Series with Texas Tech
– The two programs have met three times previously, but this will be the first time in the modern era that the two teams last met on Dec. 18, 1954. All three of his previous fights have taken place in Raleigh.
– The program met for the first time on December 10, 1951 (two seasons before the Atlantic Coast Conference was formed), when Texas Tech defeated No. 10 Pac, 63-62, in Raleigh. The following December (12/20/52), the No. 6 Pack defeated Texas Tech 80-55, giving North Carolina State the championship. In the most recent matchup (December 18, 1954), the 4th place Pac defeated Texas Tech 85-74.
– Ronnie Shavlik, a two-time All-American at North Carolina State University, grabbed 24 rebounds in the 1954 Pack championship. The 24 rebounds remain the seventh-most in a single game in program history.
