The Wolfpack (23-3, 11-3 ACC) will return to action on Thursday in Chapel Hill against the North Carolina Tar Heels. Tip is set for 8 p.m.

NC State will play back-to-back games against its fellow Triangle teams starting with a Thursday night primetime matchup at North Carolina. Tip-off from Carmichael Arena in Chapel Hill is slated for 8 p.m. with national television coverage on the ACC Network.

Sixth-ranked NC State (23-3, 11-3 ACC) kicks off a weekend of Triangle hoops action on Thursday night when it makes the trip to Chapel Hill for its second regular-season matchup with North Carolina (17-9, 9-5 ACC).

Tip-off between the Wolfpack and the Tar Heels is set for 8 p.m. from Carmichael Arena, and the game will be televised nationally on the ACC Network. Live radio coverage will also be available on WKNC 88.1 FM in Raleigh and on the GoPack and Varsity Network apps.

SERIES HISTORY (NC STATE LEADS 64-54)
Thursday marks the 119th overall meeting between NC State and North Carolina and the second of two regular-season matchups.

The teams have faced off at least once every season since the 1974-75 campaign, the Pack's first year as a varsity team.

NC State won the first meeting of the year, a 63-59 decision on the Wolfpack's home court that featured a showdown between a pair of ranked squads.

The squads split last year's regular-season series, and NC State swept the series the year before in 2021-22.
NC State dropped its last visit to Carmichael Arena, falling by a 56-47 score in that Jan. 15, 2023 trip last year.

The Wolfpack enters Thursday's game with a 20-30 record when playing at UNC. The team has won only one of its last four trips to Chapel Hill.
NC State is 13-9 against the Tar Heels under the leadership of Coach Moore

Since the start of the 2016-17 season, the Pack has been ranked in the AP Top 25 in 15 of 17 meetings against North Carolina, including Thursday's game.

Thursday will be the 107th time that at least one of the two squads is ranked in the AP Top 25 at the time of competition. NC State and UNC have only faced off as a pair of unranked teams 12 times in the previous 118 meetings

The Wolfpack has the 39-11 advantage in games during which it is ranked and UNC is unranked.

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North Carolina State at North Carolina ACC Network, 8 p.m

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⏰ 8 PM
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NC State at North Carolina
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8 pm ET
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NC State at North Carolina
Women’s College Basketball
8 pm ET⁰ACC Network
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1Q
Media timeout
4:05
NC State 15
unc-ch 9

1Q
NC State 20
unc-ch 22

2Q
Media timeout
4:07
NC State 31
unc-ch 34

2Q
NC State timeout
2:33
NC State 31
unc-ch 39

Final
unc-ch 80
NC State 70

Free throws vs uncch
11-14
78.6%

NC State women's basketball (23-4, 11-4 ACC) had its three-game winning streak snapped on Thursday night as it suffered a road loss at UNC (18-9, 10-5 ACC).

Four Wolfpack players scored in double figures Aziaha James (24), Saniya Rivers (13), Mimi Collins (11) and Madison Hayes (11). James and Rivers both knocked down multiple threes, with James hitting a team-leading four and Rivers getting three on the night.

The Wolfpack shot 33.3 percent (9-of-27) from three but allowed the Tar Heels to shoot 52.4 percent from distance, with their 11 threes tying as the most NC State has given up in a game this season.

The Pack had a 17-7 advantage in second-chance points, led by five offensive boards and a total of 10 rebounds for Collins who posted her fourth double-double of the season.

NC State faced a seven-point halftime deficit (42-35) after allowing the Heels to shoot over 50 percent (17-of-33) in the first 20 minutes of the contest. The Wolfpack started hot from the floor, hitting six of its first nine shots but only went 5-of-28 (.179) for the remainder of the first half. Despite its shooting woes, nearly half of the Pack's first-half buckets were threes, and the team never let UNC's lead get into double figures.

Five unanswered by UNC to start the second half put its lead into double figures (49-39) for the first time, but NC State powered out a 7-0 run of its own in response to cut the Tar Heel lead to three. The Wolfpack was down just a possession as late as the 3:07 mark of the third quarter but UNC scored the last seven of the period to make it a 10-point game going into the fourth.

The Wolfpack dialed up its fullcourt press in the final period, but UNC stayed hot. The Heels pushed their lead to as large as 14 points in the opening minutes of the fourth, and, despite some late-game putbacks by the Pack, did not let NC State get closer than eight in the final period.

The Pack makes a Sunday trip to Duke for its final road contest of the 2023-24 regular season. Tip-off from Cameron Indoor Stadium is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. that day with national television coverage provided by the ACC Network.

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