NC State women's basketball (13-4, 3-3 ACC) will make the short trip to Chapel Hill on Sunday afternoon to take on rival UNC (11-5, 2-3 ACC) for its second ranked matchup of the 2022-23 season. Tip-off between the 11th-ranked Wolfpack and the 22nd-ranked Tar Heels is set for 3:30 p.m. on ESPN.
SERIES HISTORY (NC State leads 62-53)
Sunday's game marks the 116th meeting between NC State and North Carolina. The teams have faced off at least twice every season since the 1974-75 campaign, the Pack's first year as a varsity team.
The Wolfpack has won three in a row over the Tar Heels.
Sunday is the first of two regular-season dates between NC State and UNC. Last year marked the first time either team had swept the regular-season meetings since the 2017-18 campaign, with the Wolfpack winning both matchups.
UNC owns a 29-20 advantage when playing in Chapel Hill.
NC State won its last road trip to Carolina by a 66-58 score on Jan. 30, 2022. That also marked the most recent meeting between the squads.
NC State is 11-8 against UNC in the Moore era.
This game marks the 11th in a row that the Wolfpack is ranked in the AP Top 25 when taking on the Tar Heels. The teams were also both ranked in their first regular-season meeting last year (Jan. 6, 2022) which marked their first time matching up as a pair of ranked teams since Feb. 16, 2014.
Coming into Sunday's matchup, NC State and North Carolina have faced off a total of 102 times with at least one of the two teams ranked in the AP Top 25.
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