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The Wolfpack will remain in Portland to take on top-seeded Texas on Sunday, March 31. That Elite Eight matchup will tip off at 3 p.m. EST (12 p.m. local time) on ABC

Portland will be rocking for @PackWomensBball tomorrow!

We're back with another team send off for this squad. #GoPack | #WPN pic.twitter.com/46NpetczGV

— Wolfpack Club (@wolfpackclub) March 30, 2024

the Wolfpack women's basketball team (30-6) takes on Texas (33-4) in the Portland 4 regional final on Sunday afternoon with a spot in the 2024 NCAA Final Four on the line.

Tip-off between the 11th-ranked and third-seeded Wolfpack and the fourth-ranked and one-seeded Longhorns is scheduled for 3 p.m. EST (12 p.m. local time) from the Moda Center. The game will be televised nationally on ABC, and live radio coverage will also be available on WKNC 88.1 FM in Raleigh and on the GoPack and Varsity Network apps.

SERIES HISTORY (Texas leads 6-2)

• Sunday marks the ninth overall meeting between NC State and Texas. It is their third time facing off in the NCAA Tournament.
• Texas is 2-0 in the teams' previous two NCAA Tournament meetings, winning in 1989-90 and 2016-17.
• NC State won the most recent matchup with Texas by an 84-73 score in a game that was played on a neutral court as part of a tournament hosted by Hawaii.
• The Wolfpack's 2017 NCAA Tournament matchup with the Longhorns is the team's only other time facing them in the Moore era. He is 1-1 against Texas at NC State/on his career.
• NC State and Texas have matched up as a pair of AP Top 25 teams five previous times. The Wolfpack is 1-4 in those contests.
• The Wolfpack is 1-2 in neutral site matchups against the Longhorns.

https://gopack.com/news/2024/3/30/womens-basketball-nc-state-squares-off-against-texas-in-sundays-elite-eight-game

Portland 4 Region, Moda Center, Portland, OR
Announcers: Courtney Lyle/Car0lyn Peck//Brooke Weisbrod
North Carolina State vs. Texas ABC, 3 p.m.

REGIONAL FINAL 👏

⏰ 12 PM local, 3 PM EST
🆚 Texas
📍 Moda Center (Portland)
ℹ️ https://t.co/qKDH9PV05U pic.twitter.com/BBKPisCx7m

— NC State WBB 🐺🏀 (@PackWomensBball) March 31, 2024

3) NC State vs. (1) Texas
Women's College Basketball
NCAA Tournament Elite 8
3 pm ET/12 pm PT
ABC

@sportney_lyle (pbp), @CAROLYNPECK (analyst) & Brooke Weisbrod (reporter) #CBB #WBB #MarchMadness

Portland, Ore.

(3) NC State vs. (1) Texas
Women’s College Basketball
NCAA Tournament Elite 8
3 pm ET/12 pm PT
ABC@sportney_lyle (pbp), @CAROLYNPECK (analyst) & Brooke Weisbrod (reporter) #CBB #WBB #MarchMadness

📍Portland, Ore.

— Announcer Schedules (@announcerskeds) March 31, 2024

Final
NC State 76
Texas 66

Free Throw vs Texas
19-25
76%

NC State makes its first final 4️⃣ since 1998 with a 76-66 win over Texas! 🐺 #MarchMaddness pic.twitter.com/aoMPI9KUUC

— John (@JTweetsTennis) March 31, 2024

FINAL 4 BOUND🐺🐺🐺 pic.twitter.com/DZ7am5Ystv

— NC State WBB 🐺🏀 (@PackWomensBball) March 31, 2024

Wolfer79 said:

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Free Throw vs Texas
19-25
76%

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8 for 8 in the second half Wolfer!!! I was not happy with the 6 misses in the first half, but it's all good now!!

NC State women's basketball is headed to the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Final Four for just the second time in program history and the first time since 1998. The Wolfpack punched its ticket to the national semifinal by beating fourth-ranked and one-seeded Texas by a 76-66 score in Sunday afternoon's Portland 4 regional final.

NC State moves on to Cleveland, Ohio, where the Final Four (Friday, April 5) and national championship (Sunday, April 7) games will be played at the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse. The Wolfpack is the seventh team in NCAA Division I women's basketball history to start the season unranked in the AP Top 25 and reach the Final Four. The 1997-98 Wolfpack squad also previously accomplished that feat.

Five Wolfpack players scored in double figures, NC State's first time having that many players do so in an NCAA Tournament game since its last trip to the Elite Eight in 2022.

Aziaha James led the team in scoring for the fourth time in as many NCAA Tournament games played this season with 27 points on the night. She set a new program record for most three pointers made in a single game, shooting 7-of-9 from beyond the arc. It also marked the most threes hit in any game by a member of the Pack since Jan. 30, 2020.

River Baldwin scored 16 points, 12 of those in the fourth quarter, while Saniya Rivers added 11 points and five assists, Zoe Brooks had 10 points and three assists and Mimi Collins contributed 10 points.

The Wolfpack lit it up from distance in the second period with a 4-of-7 mark from behind the arc. Aziaha James hit three of those herself to finish with a perfect 5-of-5 mark from three-point range and 21 points in the first half, her fifth time this season posting 20+ points in a single half.

NC State went on a 9-0 run that spanned less than a minute of the second quarter to put its lead into double figures (31-20) at the 6:30 mark, and Texas scored the last five of the half to put the Pack's advantage at 12 (43-31) after 20 minutes.

After going up by as many as 18 points (40-22, 3:02) in the second quarter, NC State went through a dry spell in the third. The Wolfpack went nearly three and a half minutes without scoring, and Texas went on an 11-3 run to draw within six points (54-5, 1:06). James hit her sixth three of the game on the Pack's last possession of the third quarter to send NC State to the fourth up nine (57-48), and the Pack never let Texas get closer than seven points in the final period.

The Wolfpack moves on to take on top-ranked South Carolina in the national semifinal on Friday, April 5. That game will tip off at either 7 p.m. or 9:30 p.m. on ESPN, and finalized game time and other info will be posted on the GoPack schedule page when available.

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