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NC State Game Notes | Clemson Game Notes



Raleigh, NC – The NC State men’s basketball team starts the month of February with the organization of Clemson on Saturday afternoon in the Lenovo Center.

Tippoff against the Tigers is planned for 1:30 p.m. and the game is broadcast on the CW. NC State fans can also listen to Matt Chazanow And Tony Haynes Call the campaign in the Wolfpack Sports Network.



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-Nc State led for over 21 minutes, but was unable to complete his angered offer when the secondary Duke at home, 74-64.
– The package led by 13 points in the first half and found only one point 63-62 with less than four minutes, but made only one field gate the rest of the way.
The NC State connected its season high with 10 three-point loss and also shot a best of the season of 45.5% (10-von-22) loss. Dontrez Styles Band his career high with four did three pointers while he has newcomers Trey Parker Made three-point, one career best for the young guard.
-Styles led the NC state with 18 points on 7 von-12 shootings, including 4 out of 6 from the three-point range. The Native Kinston, NC, added two blocks to the team best team against the Blue Devils and took second place in the team with 20 blocks this season. Styles is the first NC State player when Marcus Hill or Jayden Taylor the team has been in the team since then Ben Middlebrooks Had 14 points in Kansas on December 14th.
– newcomer Trey Parker Had the best game of his young career and scored 15 points with the best career. The Fayetteville, NC, made his first six shots off the field because it was only his second two-digit goal of the season, with the other on November 13th a 13-point effort against Coastal Carolina.
– – Brandon Huntley-Hatfield For the first time since the game on December 31st in Virginia with 10 points at Duke, two -digit numbers. The Louisville Transfer scored in double -digit numbers in the first six games of the season for the NC State, but has only achieved two figures four times since then.
– – Marcus Hill Had grabbed his 12-game series with double-digit goals on Monday in Duke, where he had only recorded four points. Born in Rockford, Illinois, the team continues to run in the rating and scores an average of 12.8 points per game. Hill is second in the team with 42 templates and has a ratio of 2.1 assist turnover (42 to 20). In nine conference games, Hill increased his average to 14.1 points per game. He also heads the team in the conference campaign in the back bouncer with an average of 5.2 per game and has almost a ratio of 3 to 1 assist turnover (19 to 7).



Saturday stories
– – Ben Middlebrooks against his former school. Saturday is Middlebrook’s second career game against Clemson. Born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, started his college career at Clemson and played two seasons with the Tigers. He moved to NC State before the beginning of 2023-24. Last season, Middlebrooks had four points, a steal and a rebound in 21 minutes at the last second victory of the pack in Clemson. In his three-year college career, Middlebrooks has always been on the winning side when Clemson and NC State played each other.
– Ben Middlebrooks occupies second place in blocks in blocks at 1.6 per game. The native Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has 31 blocks this season, which most represents that he ever had in a single season. This season, Middlebrooks had several blocked shots in nine out of 101 career games, but already had eight block games this season.
– Middlebrooks (31 blocks/21 steals) and Clemsons Viktor Lakhin (34 blocks/21 steals) are two of only three players in the ACC with over 30 blocks and 20 steals this season. Taylor Bol Bowen from Florida State (30 blocks/24 steals) is the other player in the conference who has accumulated these statistics.
The game on Saturday will be a matchup of the top two teams in the ACC in the edge of the sales. The NC state leads the ACC with a sales edge of +3.6 (25th in the NCAA), while Clemson is +3.0 directly behind the pack (42. In the NCAA).
– Pack is used to playing close conference campaigns. Eight of the nine ACC games of the pack have been a one-people game in the last five minutes of regulation. The NC State started with the league by defeating State in the extension in Florida. The other victory is a one-point victory against Notre Dame. Four of his six losses are also due to the last property. NC State lost to UNC by two and in Virginia, Virginia Tech and at home against Cal by three. The defeat against Smu on the last Saturday was not due to the last property, but the back had the ball with less than 30 seconds before playing at four and on Monday evening the NC State was 4:40 with 63-62.
– one of the business cards of the NC State in the Kevin Keats Era transforms the opponent’s sales into points. In the nine victories of the pack this season, it is an average of 19.3 points per game dachments and exceeded the opponents with 102 points in points from the points. In the 11 losses of the pack, it has an average of 12.1 points from opponents and exceeded its opponents with only 21 points (133-to-112) in points from the points.



NC State Series with Clemson
– Saturday is the 166th meeting between NC State and Clemson. NC State leads the all-time series 105-60.
– – Kevin Keats is 5-8 against Clemson as head coach of the pack, including a 3-2 mark against the Tigers in games in Raleigh.
– – Last Meeting (February 17, 2024): DJ Horne Made the playing basket with less than 10 seconds to achieve a 78-77 victory in Littlejohn Coliseum. Clemson led 77-73 with one minute to play when Michael O’Connell drove the lane and put it in to cut the deficit with 50 seconds to play. On the following possession, Mohamed Diarara Steel the ball and was fouled. He made the front end of a one-and-and-one, missed the second, but the NC state forced a jumping ball in the rebound, which set up the ball again for the pack and Horne for his playing bucket. Horne led the pack with 27 points. Jayden Taylor Added 12 points outside the bank.