NCSU returns to action on Sunday at home against Duke with tip set for noon.

NC State turns its attention to a Sunday afternoon matchup with the Duke Blue Devils. Tip-off from Reynolds Coliseum is scheduled for noon, and the game will be televised nationally on the ACC Network.

NC State women's basketball (15-2, 3-2 ACC) returns to its home court on Sunday afternoon to face off against Duke (12-5, 4-2 ACC) for the first of two meetings in 2023-24.

Tip-off between the Wolfpack and the Blue Devils is set for 12 p.m. from Kay Yow Court inside Valvano Arena at Reynolds Coliseum. Doors open at 11 a.m. The game will be televised nationally on the ACC Network, and live radio coverage will also be available on WKNC 88.1 FM in Raleigh and on the GoPack and Varsity Network apps.

Tickets for the matchup are sold out, but fans interested in attending can check SeatGeek, the official fan-to-fan marketplace of the Wolfpack.

SERIES HISTORY (NC State leads 48-39)

• Sunday marks the 88th overall meeting between NC State and Duke as two varsity squads.
• With the exception of the 2020-21 COVID season, the teams have faced off at least once every season since the Pack's first as a varsity squad in 1974-75.
• The teams also met on Feb. 15, 1974 before the Wolfpack was a varsity squad. NC State won that home game by a 64-44 score.
• NC State is 23-15 all-time when playing at home against Duke.
• Duke swept the regular-season series against NC State last season, marking its first time putting together a winning streak against the Pack since winning three in a row across the 2012-13 and 2013-14 campaigns.
• The Wolfpack and the Blue Devils most recently faced off in the Pack's final road game of the 2022-23 regular season, with Duke winning that game 77-62.
• NC State is 8-5 against Duke under the leadership of Coach Moore.
• The Wolfpack's largest margin of victory in program history was an 82-point win (125-43) over the Blue Devils on Jan. 19, 1987.
• The Pack has been ranked 51 previous times when playing Duke. NC State is 10-9 against Duke when both teams are ranked and 27-5 when it is ranked and Duke is unranked.

https://gopack.com/news/2024/1/20/womens-basketball-nc-state-womens-hoops-hosts-duke-for-sold-out-sunday-matchup

Duke at North Carolina State ACC Network, noon

Let’s get Reynolds rocking.

⏰ 12 PM
🆚 Duke
📍 Reynolds Coliseum
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— NC State WBB 🐺🏀 (@PackWomensBball) January 21, 2024

Halftime
NC State 38
Duke 23

3Q
NC State 59
Duke 38

Final
NC State 72
Duke 57

NC State women's basketball (16-2, 4-2) moved back into the win column in front of a sold-out Reynolds Coliseum crowd on Sunday afternoon, knocking off in-state foe Duke (12-6, 4-3) 72-57, ending the Blue Devils' three-game win streak.

Aziaha James led the way for the Wolfpack in scoring, firing off a career-best 33 points. James' performance made it the first time in the Wes Moore era that two different players tabbed a 30+ point showing over the course of a single season, with Saniya Rivers' 33-point effort against UConn on Nov. 12 marking the first of NC State's 2023-24 campaign.

Rivers had a strong outing against Duke as well, passing out a team-high five assists and finishing one short of her career-high in steals with seven, while Mimi Collins contributed 10 rebounds en route to a 16-point double-double.

The Wolfpack got moving quickly on both ends of the floor, using an 11-0 run over less than three minutes of game time to move ahead 14-4 in the opening frame. The Pack scored a game-high 23 points in the first quarter, aided by a 10-0 edge in points off turnovers.

A strong wire-to-wire defensive showing from NC State limited Duke to 23 first-half points and 57 total on the afternoon, in addition to forcing the Blue Devils into 19 turnovers, which matched the Wolfpack defense's season high. The offense was able to capitalize on the other end of the floor, with the Pack adding 24 points off of Duke miscues.

Even with defense being the storyline of the contest, the Wolfpack offense posted its best shooting performance of ACC play, finishing the afternoon at a 45.5 percent (25-for-55) clip.

After NC State carried a 15-point lead into halftime, Duke never brought the score within single digits from that point, with NC State's lead stretching to as many as 23 points at 57-34 and 59-36 in the third quarter.

A cruise-control effort from NC State in the fourth quarter improved the Wolfpack to a perfect 10-0 at home on the year, with NC State having now won its last 12 games in Reynolds Coliseum and its last five ACC contests on its home floor.

The Wolfpack hits the road for back-to-back road games, first taking on Clemson on Thursday night. That contest is set for a 7 p.m. start on ACCNX.

https://gopack.com/news/2024/1/21/womens-basketball-4-pack-bounces-back-with-home-win-against-in-state-foe-duke

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— NC State WBB 🐺🏀 (@PackWomensBball) January 22, 2024