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The Pack will play No. 1 seed Purdue in the Final Four. Tipoff in Phoenix is scheduled for 6:09 p.m. ET and the game will be televised on TBS.

Business trip to Phoenix 🧳#GoPack | #TriangleBMWDealers pic.twitter.com/KJDwIK616g

— NC State Men's Basketball (@PackMensBball) April 1, 2024

The NC State men's basketball team arrived in Phoenix, Ariz., Wednesday afternoon for the 2024 Final Four.

The Pack opens play in the Final Four on Saturday evening when it faces No. 1 seed Purdue. Tipoff against the Boilermakers is scheduled for 6:09 p.m. ET and the game will be televised on TBS.

NC State fans can also listen to Gary Hahn and Tony Haynes call the action on the Wolfpack Sports Network.

NC State Series with Purdue
- Saturday is the 7th all-time meeting between NC State and Purdue. The Pack leads the all-time series, 4-2, but Purdue has won the last two games.
- The two programs last met on December 12, 2021 in the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., with top-ranked Purdue defeating NC State in overtime, 82-72. NC State never trailed in regulation and led by as many as 13 points in the second half. The Pack still had an eight-point lead at the final media timeout of the second half, but Purdue closed regulation on a 12-4 run to force overtime and ran away with the win in the extra five minutes.

NC State in the NCAA Tournament
- This is the Pack's second consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance and 29th all-time. NC State has an all-time record of 41-26 in the NCAA Tournament.

NC State in the Final Four
- This is NC State's fourth appearance in the NCAA Final Four.
- It previously made the Final Four in 1950, 1974 and 1983.

https://gopack.com/news/2024/4/3/mens-basketball-pack-arrives-in-phoenix-faces-no-1-seed-purdue-saturday-at-final-four

#1 Purdue vs #11 NC State
6:09 p.m. TBS/TNT/truTV
Ian Eagle, Bill Raftery, Grant Hill, Tracy Wolfson

Nothing But Net: North Carolina State Men's Postgame live from State Farm Stadium, Glendale, AZ ACC Network, 11:30 p.m.

Men's
NCAA Tournament
Final Four
National Semifinals, State Farm Stadium, Glendale, AZ
Announcers: Ian Eagle/Grant Hill/Bill Raftery//Tracy Wolfson//Gene Steratore (rules)
North Carolina State vs. Purdue TBS/TNT/truTV/Max, 6:09 p.m.

FINAL FOUR GAMEDAY!

vs. Purdue | 6:09 PM ET | TBS #GoPack | #TriangleBMWDealers pic.twitter.com/k1xI1kVNyI

— NC State Men's Basketball (@PackMensBball) April 6, 2024

The NC State men's basketball team saw its season come to a close with a 63-50 loss to number-one seed Purdue Saturday evening in the Final Four held at State Farm Stadium.

The loss snapped NC State's nine game win streak as the Pack finishes the season with a 26-15 record.

The Pack's defense held Purdue to a season-low 63 points and the Boilers shot just 40 percent from the field, its second-lowest field goal percentage of the season, but NC State's offense could never get on track as NC State scored a season-low 50 points and shot just 36.8 percent from the field, its lowest shooting percentage since Jan. 27.

DJ Horne led NC State with 20 points while Jayden Taylor added 11 points off the bench. DJ Burns was held to just eight points, but did pass out a team-best four assists while Ben Middlebrooks led the team with seven rebounds.

Purdue jumped out to a 9-2 lead and took its first double-digit lead of the game on a three-pointer to make it 21-11 with 10:09 left in the half.

The Boilers lead was still 12, 28-16, with six minutes to go in the opening half when NC State went on a 13-4 run to pull within three, 32-29, on a Horne jumper with 39 seconds to play.

Purdue made a three-pointer on its final possession of the half to double its lead and take a 35-29 advantage into the halftime break.

In the second half, NC State could never get closer than six as an almost six-minute field goal drought allowed Purdue to put the game out of reach.

Zach Edey, the first two-time Associated Press National Player of the Year since Virginia's Ralph Sampson won three in a row from 1981 to 1983, led Purdue with a double-double scoring 20 points and grabbing a game-high 12 rebounds. Lance Jones chipped in 14 points while Fletcher Loyer scored 11.

Purdue shot 10-of-25 from three-point range while NC State was just 5-of-19, and the Boilers also outrebounded NC State, 41-28.

Saturday marked the final collegiate games of DJ Burns, Jr., DJ Horne and Casey Morsell. The trio wrote their names into the NC State record books with Burns finishing his NC State career 10th all-time in career field goal percentage in program history while also being named the ACC Tournament MVP and South Region Most Outstanding Player. Horne made 105 three-pointers this season to break the single season mark previously held by Scott Wood and Rodney Monroe (each with 104). Morsell closes his three-year career with NC State as the 57th player in school history to score over 1,000 career points and so tied an NCAA record this season for most starts in a single season as the Ft. Washington, Md., native started all 41 games for the Pack.

https://gopack.com/news/2024/4/6/mens-basketball-packs-season-comes-to-close-in-final-four-loss-to-purdue