Heritage Game: NC State Welcomes Texas Southern

When: Wednesday December 17 – 7:00 PM

Where: James T Valvano Arena at William Neal Reynolds Coliseum

TV: ACC Network Extra

Opponent: Texas Southern Tigers (Southwest Atlantic Conference (SWAC) )

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Prediction – KenPom (KP) / Bart Torvik (BT): NC State 94-65 / NC State 97-67

Wolfpack Snapshot:

NET Ranking: NET 36, 7th in ACC Conf NET rankings

NET performance: Q1 (1-3), Q2 (1-1), Q3 (2-0), Q4 (3-0)

Wolfpack Season So Far:

Coach Wade after the Kansas game:

“We are massively better than we were 10 days ago when we left Auburn

If we keep making progress, I feel good about where we will be at the end of the year.

Are we where we want to be? Absolutely not. I’m disappointed that we haven’t put a better product out there for the fans, but we will.

At the end of the day, we’ve got to start winning some of these games

Good things are going to happen. I believe in this team.”

Opponent Overview:

Texas Southern is an HBCU located in Houston.

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Coach Johnny Jones is from the Dale Brown coaching tree. He played for Brown at LSU and made it to the 1981 Final Four – losing to Ralph Sampson’s UVA team, and later worked 12 seasons as one of Brown’s assistants.

Small World! Coach Jones immediately preceded Will Wade as the LSU basketball head coach. He led the Tigers to one NCAA tournament, coincidentally losing to NC State – on BeeJay Anya’s legendary last second shot. He was hired by Texas Southern when Wade replaced him at LSU.

Media predicts them finishing 5th in the SWAC preseason voting

Opponent Snapshot:

Rankings: KP #326, BT #286

NET Ranking: NET 341, 10th in SWAC Conf NET rankings

NET performance: Q1 (0-2), Q2 (0-2), Q3 (0-1), Q4 (0-2)

Team

PPG

PPG-OPP

FG%

3PT%

3PT-M

Reb

Ast

TO

ST

BL

NC State

87.6

73.1

48.8%

38.50%

10.5

36.9

16.8

9.9

8.2

2.9

Texas Southern

71.1

87

43.2%

30.90%

5

33.5

8.9

15.9

6.5

2.8

Their Season So Far:

(This is a brief review of our opponent’s season to date. This lists their opponent, their KenPom rank to evaluate the quality of the opponent, the score with NC State’s…

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