Earlier In The Week In Raleigh NC State Hosted The Virginia Team Located In Blacksburg In Virginia Tech! Today NC State Is Hosting The Virginia Team Located In Charlottesville In Virginia!
Earlier in the week in Raleigh NC State hosted the Virginia team located in Blacksburg in Virginia Tech!
Today NC State is hosting the Virginia team located in Charlottesville in Virginia!
NC State comes into the game with a record of 9-10 while they’re 2-6 in the Atlantic Coast Conference and are fourteenth in the standings because they lost to Virginia Tech 62-59 on Wednesday in North Carolina’s state capital. In NC State’s 59-62 loss to Virginia Tech The NC State men's basketball team cut an 18-point first half deficit to just one point in the final seconds, but could not complete the comeback as Virginia Tech squeaked out a 62-59 win inside PNC Arena Wednesday evening.
Virginia Tech scored the first 15 points of the game and held a 19-2 lead 10 minutes into the game. NC State settled in and got within 10, 23-13, on a Dereon Seabronthree-point play, but Virginia Tech responded with an 8-0 run to take its largest lead of the game, 31-13, with 2:32 left in the half.
NC State closed the half on an 8-4 run to cut the deficit to 35-21 at the break.
NC State came out of the halftime locker room and immediately made a dent in the deficit.
Terquavion Smith made a three on the Pack's first possession and then made another three-pointer a few minutes later as the Pack outscored Virginia Tech 13-5 in the first four-and-a-half minutes to get within 40-34.
Virginia Tech stretched the lead back out to nine, but the Pack got back within four on another Smith three-pointer with 13:13 to play.
Virginia Tech had an answer for every NC State run though, pushing the lead back to nine and maintaining a seven-to-nine point lead until the Pack went on a 7-0 run, capped by a Jericole Hellems three-pointer to get within two, 55-53, with 5:33 to go.
Virginia Tech again had a response, scoring the next five to stretch the lead back out to seven. The Pack again had a run in it as Dereon Seabron scored the game's next six points to get within one, 60-59, with 21 seconds to play, but the Hokies made both free throws to push the lead out to three and Smith's jumper at the end of the game was short.
Hellems led NC State with 15 points on 6-of-10 shooting. Smith added 14 points and Seabron finished with 13 points. Casey Morsell had 11 points and three steals off-the-bench.
Virginia Tech outscored NC State 34-22 in the paint as the Virginia Tech’s forwards Keve Aluma (10pts/11reb) and Justyn Mutts (13pts/9 reb) combined to score 23 points on 11-of-15 shooting and grabbed 20 rebounds.
“according to an article on gopack.com”
Virginia comes into the game with a record of 11-7 while they are 5-3 in the Atlantic Coast Conference and are eighth in the standings.
Unlike NC State, Virginia won their game earlier in the week as they topped Pittsburgh 66-61 on Wednesday in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania because Reece Beekman scored 19 points––one shy of his career high––and added a career-best eight assists, three rebounds, two blocked shots and one steal. No. 2 matched his career high with three 3-pointers on a night when Virginia was 4 for 17 from beyond the arc.
“according to an article by Jeff White on virginiasports.com”
Tip off is set for 4:00pm from PNC Arena!
The game is going to be televised on ACC Network!