Carolina vs N C State game thread for n Saturday 16 March 2024

[IDUNK4HEELS]

Great to see two teams from North Carolina battling for the Championship crown in the ACC tournament.

The Cinderella NC State story has been great to see as all of the Keatts haters who have wanted him fired for some reason have been quiet during this Wolfpack run.

Bottom line this game will probably come down to the play in the middle between Burns and Middlebrooks versus Bacot and Washington. Which ever team gets the other man in the middle for the other team in foul trouble will be the major factor.

Like last night I strongly believe Trimble’s defense on the State’s guards will also factor in the final outcome.

Neither Ryan nor Ingram did much scoring last night and I fully expect them to change that around tonight.

This will be the Wolfpack’s 5th game in five days but these young men actually that young

 

[al would]

I think the wuffies 5 games in 5 days will show tonight .. but stranger things have happened .. like IS pasting Houston tonight !!!

 

[al would]

And I don't expect Ingram or Ryan to have 2 bad games in a row !!

 

[Bubspub88]

Waaayyy to many upsets yesterday and today to make me feel comfortable. In my perfect world Cadeau avoids early fouls and we see a heavy dose of transition basketball

 

[UNC-75]

5 games in 5 nights. That’s incredible when you stop and think about it.

 

[KeeLo]

Stats FWIW:

North Carolina	Stat	NC State
27-6	Record	21-14
81.8%	Win %	60.0%
2-0	Versus	0-2
17-3	Conference	9-11
7	NET	68
35	SOS	60
81.6	PPG	76.1
45.2%	FG%	44.7%
35.7%	3FG%	34.5%
75.3%	FT%	73.2%
41.2	RPG	35.0
12.2	OffRPG	10.6
30.5%	OffR%	27.1%
14.4	APG	12.8
10.4	TO/G	9.5
1.39	A/TO	1.34
71.5	Poss./G	69.4
114.1	Off. Eff.	109.7
51.2%	AFG%	46.9%
5.8	SPG	7.5
4.2	BPG	3.5
69.8	Opp. PPG	72.6
40.4%	Opp. FG%	44.6%
31.2%	Opp. 3FG%	35.1%
33.7	Opp. RPG	36.1
10.7	Opp. TO/G	12.6
97.3	Def. Eff.	104.6

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Head-to-Head Stats:

Date	Opponent	Result	PF	PA	FGM	FGA	%	2FGM	2FGA	%	3FGM	3FGA	%	FTM	FTA	%	Poss.	Off. Eff.	REB	OREB	A	TO	STL	BLK	Opp FGM	Opp FGA	%	Opp 3FGM	Opp 3FGA	%	Opp REB	Opp TO	Opp STL	Opp BLK	Def. Eff.
2024-01-10	NC State	W	67	54	24	62	38.7%	17	41	41.5%	7	21	33.3%	12	20	60.0%	71.5	93.7	49	13	11	13	5	4	18	66	27.3%	2	20	10.0%	41	10	7	5	74.0
2024-03-02	NC State	W	79	70	25	53	47.2%	19	37	51.4%	6	16	37.5%	23	27	85.2%	68.8	114.8	34	5	13	8	4	2	25	60	41.7%	9	19	47.4%	31	9	3	3	103.6
Avg	---	2-0	73.0	62.0	24.5	57.5	42.6%	18.0	39.0	46.2%	6.5	18.5	35.1%	17.5	23.5	74.5%	70.2	104.0	41.5	9.0	12.0	10.5	4.5	3.0	21.5	63.0	34.1%	5.5	19.5	28.2%	36.0	9.5	5.0	4.0	88.2

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[al would]

5 games in 5 nights. That’s incredible when you stop and think about it.

High level comp too .. Ill give moo a little love for getting here. Coach V is surely smiling.

 

[Prof C]

5 games in 5 nights. That’s incredible when you stop and think about it.

Yup. Run, run, and then run some more tonight Heels!!

 

[Prof C]

Didn't NCSU play 4 in 4 days in an ACC tourney, and lose in the finals?

 

[Ozheelfan]

State fans with the most uninspiring t-shirts: “why not us?” Really? That’s not the message to strike fear in hearts

 

[IDUNK4HEELS]

Horne a jumper 2-0

 

[IDUNK4HEELS]

Morsell fouled by Davis hits the first 3-0

 

[IDUNK4HEELS]

Carolina has missed its first three shots

 

[sctarheel30]

Moo on fire

 

[IDUNK4HEELS]

Cadeau down the lane 3-2 followed by a O’Connell three then Horne a bomb 9-2

 

[IDUNK4HEELS]

Burns a hook over Bacot 11-2

 

[al would]

not much good happens when mando dribbles in to the lane

 

[IDUNK4HEELS]

Bacot at the line sinks two 11-4

 

[sctarheel30]

Make a prediction moo is 100% from field if that continues we lose agree??

 

[sctarheel30]

Heads in arse so far

 

[IDUNK4HEELS]

Diarre a three from the top and state is up by ten early14-4

 

[sctarheel30]

They about to make me turn on supercross race

 

[al would]

mo is on moo's side atm .. they will tire

 

[DaveChapelle]

We really decided not to show up in the ACC title game.

Roy would bench the whole starting 5 with this garbage.

 

[sctarheel30]

Crash boards on offense

 

[DaveChapelle]

mo is on moo's side atm .. they will tire

Not unless we start full court pressing them. They are controlling the pace right now.

 

[IDUNK4HEELS]

Carolina starts slow in so many games this season

 

[Heelicious]

I think we can’t give them open 3s.

And work thru bacot on offense. Too bad - it looks like ingrams 3s have no chance of going in.

Need to keep pushing pace too.

 

[sctarheel30]

mo is on moo's side atm .. they will tire

Yep and then the legs tire as well and shots don’t fall 🤞

 

[sctarheel30]

Time to try the press

 

[sctarheel30]

Wtf bacot

 

[IDUNK4HEELS]

Getting outhustled early

 

[IDUNK4HEELS]

Withers pushes one in but Horne responds and then Davis BOOM 16-9

 

[IDUNK4HEELS]

Diarra a dunk and Washington banks one in 18-11

 

[sctarheel30]

No T bs

 

[IDUNK4HEELS]

Horne is on fire 20-11

 

[IDUNK4HEELS]

Trimble in for Davis

 

[DaveChapelle]

Why isn't Trimble picking up full court defense!

 

[sctarheel30]

So far crappy defense and they are shooting almost 70%. Pick it up guys!!

 

[IDUNK4HEELS]

Bacot a baseline jumper 20-13