No. 20 NC State women's basketball (15-5, 5-4 ACC) will welcome a ranked opponent to Reynolds Coliseum for the first time this season as it hosts seventh-ranked Notre Dame (17-2, 8-1 ACC) on Sunday afternoon. Tip-off between the Wolfpack and the Fighting Irish is scheduled for 3 p.m., and the game will be televised nationally on ESPN.
Tickets for the matchup are sold out, but fans interested in attending can check StubHub, the official fan-to-fan marketplace of the Wolfpack.
FAN INFO
Doors open at 2 p.m., and the first 3,500 fans in attendance will receive a red light baton to use during intros and throughout the game
SERIES HISTORY (Notre Dame leads 8-3)
Sunday's game marks the 12th overall meeting between NC State and Notre Dame.
This will be Notre Dame's first trip to Raleigh since the 2018-19 campaign. The Pack was set to host the Fighting Irish in 2020-21, but that matchup was postponed and eventually canceled due to COVID-19 protocols within the Notre Dame program.
NC State is 1-3 when hosting Notre Dame on its home court.
The Wolfpack's only home win in the series with the Fighting Irish was when the team upset then second-ranked Notre Dame on Dec. 29, 2016, winning by a 70-62 score after never trailing in that outing.
Notre Dame emerged victorious in its last trip to Raleigh as it won by a 95-72 score on Feb. 18, 2019.
Each of the last two games between the Wolfpack and the Notre Dame have been decided by just three points.
Notre Dame won last year's regular-season meeting between the squads, coming away with a 69-66 win in South Bend.
NC State and Notre Dame most recently off in the NCAA Sweet Sixteen last season. The Pack mounted a fourth-quarter come- back to beat the Fighting Irish by a 66-63 score to advance to its first Elite Eight berth since 1998.
The Wolfpack is 3-7 against Notre Dame in the Moore era.
Sunday marks the third straight matchup and the eighth time overall in which both teams are ranked in the AP Top 25 at the time of competition. NC State is 1-6 in those previous seven meetings.
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