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NC State, Richmond Are Matching Up In The Basketball Hall Of Fame Shootout Tonight In Charlotte At The Spectrum Center! The Home Of The NBA's Charlotte Hornets!

NC State, Richmond are matching up in the Basketball Hall Of Fame Shootout tonight in Charlotte at the Spectrum Center!

The home of the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets!

NC State is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference!

Richmond is a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference!

NC State comes into the game with a record 7-3!

Their most recent game?

An 82-72 loss to top ranked Purdue on Sunday in the Basketball Hall Of Fame Invitational in Brooklyn New York!

In NC State’s 82-72 loss to Purdue NC State didn’t trail top ranked Purdue in regulation Sunday!

Though, they trailed in overtime where they eventually lost by a score of 82-72 on Sunday in the Basketball Hall Of Fame Invitational.

Where?

Barclays Center!

Home of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets, WNBA’s New York Liberty.

In NC State’s 82-72 loss Purdue forced overtime in the final minute and then ran away in overtime.

In NC State’s 82-72 loss to Purdue Freshman guard Terquavion Smith had his third consecutive strong performance as he poured in a career-high 21 points. Smith scored 13 of his 21 in the second half.

Dereon Seabron added 18 points and team-highs in rebounds (6) and assists (4).

Cam Hayes and Jericole Hellems both scored 12 points as four players reached double figures for NC State.

NC State jumped out to an 8-0 lead in the first three minutes of the game. Purdue fought back to cut the deficit to two at 27-25, but NC State rattled off the next four points to stem the Boilers' momentum and went into the halftime break with a 31-27 lead.

Smith opened the second half with a four-point play to double the Pack's lead to eight and NC State was the aggressor in the first three minutes of the second half, taking a 44-32 lead on a Smith jumper with 16:41 to play that forced a Purdue timeout.

The Boilermakers scored the next seven points to get within five, but NC State responded with a 10-2 run, capped by back-to-back three-pointers by Hellems to take a 13-point lead, 54-41, with 9:10 to go.

The Pack still led, 62-54, at the final media timeout of the game with 3:40 to play. The Pack led 64-58 with under two minutes to go when Purdue hit a three-pointer to slice the deficit in half and then got a three-point play by Trevion Williams to tie the score at 64 with 51 seconds remaining.

It was the first time the game had been tied.

Dereon Seabron drove to the basket on the next possession to put NC State back in the lead, but Purdue responded on the other end to tie it at 66. The final seconds saw turnovers by both teams as neither team could get a good look at a game-winning basket.

In overtime, Purdue hit a three-pointer on its first possession of the extra period to take its first lead of the game. Hayes responded for NC State to get within one, but the Pack wouldn't make another field goal until under a minute to play as Purdue hit 9-of-13 free throws in overtime to pull away for a 10-point victory.

Williams led Purdue with 22 points and 12 rebounds, nine assists and four blocks. Jaden Ivey also had 22 points for the Boilers.

Purdue had a 50-34 advantage in points in the paint and the Boiler's, which entered the game second in the NCAA in rebounding margin at +16, outrebounded the Pack by 13.

Richmond comes into the game with a record of 6-4!

Their most recent game a 72-69 win over Toledo on Saturday!

In Richmond’s 72-69 win over Toledo Moments before tip-off, Jacob Gilyard stood alone at center court and looked up to see a banner unveiled in the Robins Center rafters commemorating Gilyard's new title as the all-time NCAA Division I steal leader. Moments before the final horn, Gilyard made two game-sealing steals for Richmond, and pointed up to his banner after each.

In his first game since setting the NCAA career steals record Sunday at Northern Iowa, Gilyard made the game-winning three-pointer with 34 seconds to play and then secured the win by coming up with steals on Toledo's final two possessions.

Despite coming all the way back from a 19-point second-half deficit, Richmond trailed 68-67 in the final minute before Gilyard gave the Spiders the lead for good with a three-pointer from the wing off a pass from Isaiah Wilson with 34 seconds remaining. With the clock ticking down and Richmond leading 71-69, Toledo's Ryan Rollins, who entered the game as the MAC's leading scorer, went one-on-one with Gilyard. When Rollins dribbled left and attempted to pull up, Gilyard reached in and cleanly smacked the ball away for his fourth steal of the game.

After the game, Jacob Gilyard summed up the possession pretty clearly. " He ran into a guy who does this often," said Gilyard of his 390th career steal. Gilyard recorded steal number 391 just before the buzzer, stripping Toledo's J.T. Shumate of the ball as he tried to collect a baseball pass and sending the crowd of 6,592 rowdy fans into a frenzy.
Though, Toledo

scored the game's first 13 points and led 41-24 at halftime, holding Richmond to just 8-34 from the field and 4-17 from three-point range in the opening 20 minutes.

Gilyard got the Richmond offense going with back-to-back three pointers early in the second half. His second started a 17-0 Richmond run that cut Toledo's lead from 18 to 46-45 with 13:45 to play.

Nathan Cayo tied the game at 52 with a layup at the 10:20 mark, and Richmond took its first lead of the contest with 8:28 remaining on three free throws by Tyler Burton, part of a 10-0 run that pushed Richmond's lead to 62-55 with 7:38 to go.

Toledo responded with a 12-3 stretch to retake the lead at 67-65, but Richmond locked down defensively to hold the Rockets to no field goals while forcing three turnovers in the final three-plus minutes of the game.

Burton finished the game with a team-leading 17 points, including 15 in the second half, and nine rebounds. Nick Sherod came off the bench to score 14 points and make four three-pointers, tying Darien Brothers for the eighth-most career three-pointers in program history (205) in the process.

But the night belonged to Gilyard, who recorded 13 points, seven assists, and five steals with no turnovers. "It was probably the best moment of my life if I'm being honest with you," said Gilyard when asked about seeing his banner unveiled prior to the game.

“according to an article on richmondspiders.com”

Tip off is set for 6:30pm from Spectrum Center!

The game is going to be televised on ACC Network!