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#2 Wolfpack Travels to #6 Indiana for Top-10 B1G/ACC Challenge Faceoff
12/1/2021 9:16:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Thursday marks NC State's third top-10 matchup in its first eight games of 2021-22
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RALEIGH – Second-ranked NC State women's hoops (6-1) faces its first true road test of the season on Thursday evening as it makes the trip to take on sixth-ranked Indiana (5-1) in the 2021 installment of the B1G/ACC Challenge. Tip-off between the Wolfpack and the Hoosiers is set for 7 p.m. from Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., and the game will be televised nationally on ESPN2.
Thursday's contest marks NC State's third top-10 faceoff in the first 25 days of the 2021-22 campaign.
A WIN ON THURSDAY WOULD
• Be the 973rd win in program history (972-475)
• Be head coach Wes Moore's 755th career win (754-235)
• Be Moore's 197th win at NC State (196-66)
• Extend the Wolfpack's winning streak in the B1G/ACC Challenge to three games
• Mark NC State's second over a top-10 opponent this season
NOTING THE WOLFPACK (6-1)
• NC State moved up three spots to land in a tie for No. 2 in the latest Associated Press Top 25. The Wolfpack is tied with UConn, as each team received 704 votes.
• All of the Pack's six wins in 2021-22 have been by 18 or more points, and the team is outscoring those squads by an average of 30.2 points per game. Four of those six wins have been against Power Five opponents and one from each conference - Florida, Kansas State, Maryland and Washington State.
• Through five games, the Wolfpack is nationally ranked:
7th in three-point percentage (.414)
8th in field-goal percentage (.486)
13th in rebound margin (+13.4)
16th in fewest turnovers per game (12.4)
17th in scoring margin (+24.6)
19th in scoring offense (80.3)
23rd in defensive rebounds per game (30.3)
26th in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.23)
• NC State's overall and three-point shooting percentages both lead the ACC, and the team's scoring offense ranks second in the league.
• Elissa Cunane leads the team in scoring with 14.4 points per game, and she has put together that number with a 53.7 percent clip from the field. Diamond Johnson (13.3) and Jakia Brown-Turner (10.3) join Cunane in averaging double figures. Six players are averaging 7+ points and at least 15 minutes per game through seven balanced scoring outings.
• The Pack is 5-0 in games during which it has at least three players score 10+ points.
• The Wolfpack's 8.3 three pointers per game ranks third in the ACC, and the team is also averaging 35.1 points in the paint.
SERIES HISTORY (NC State leads 4-1)
• Thursday marks the sixth overall meeting between NC State and Indiana. It will be the second season in a row that the two squads face each other, and the first time since 2016-17 doing so in the regular season.
• NC State and Indiana last met on March 27, 2021 in the Sweet Sixteen of the 2021 NCAA Tournament. The Hoosiers picked up their first win in the series, a three-point 73-70 decision in San Antonio, to advance to the Elite Eight.
• The Wolfpack has taken on the Hoosiers in the B1G/ACC Challenge one other time, hosting them in the 2016 edition of the event and winning by an 84-70 score.
• Last season's meeting marked the first time that the squads faced off while both ranked in the AP Top 25. NC State was ranked third, and Indiana was ranked 12th.
• The Wolfpack has defeated Indiana by as many as 18 points and as few as two points in the series history between the squads.
RANKED WINS UNDER MOORE
NC State has defeated a total of 25 nationally-ranked opponents (25-35) in the Wes Moore era. Five of those have been top-five teams and 11 have been top-10 teams. Since Moore was named head coach ahead of the 2013-14 campaign, the Wolfpack has won six road games against AP Top 25 teams, with four of those occurring against AP Top 10 foes. The most recent of those wins were last season's victories at No. 1 South Carolina and No. 1 Louisville.
DIAMOND DOING IT ALL
• Johnson was named ACC Player of the Week on Monday following a pair of stellar outings against No. 2 Maryland and Washington State. In those wins, she averaged 20.5 points, 7.5 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 4.0 steals.
• Johnson finished just two points shy of her career high with 24 against the Cougars. It was her eighth 20+ point game in her career and the highest scoring performance by a member of the Wolfpack through seven games. She knocked down a season-high 4-of-5 threes in that outing.
• Johnson leads the team in assists (22, 3.1 per game) and steals (15, 2.1 per game). She ranks 15th and sixth in the ACC in those respective categories. Johnson is also second on NC State's team with her season scoring (13.3) and rebounding (6.0) averages.
• Looking at her season marks, Johnson is one of just two players in the ACC to average 10+ points, 5+ rebounds, 3+ assists and 2+ steals. She also has a better field-goal percentage (.513) than the other player with those averages, Celeste Taylor of Duke (.478).
• Johnson is tied for the team lead in made three pointers with 12 this season. She has knocked at
least one triple down in each of the Wolfpack's wins this year.
WOLFPACK IN WINS
• The last time NC State won six straight games by margins of 18+ was when it won nine in a row by 25+ in January and into February of 1979.
• The Pack scored 85+ points four games in a row in the Preseason WNIT, doing so for the first time since 1996-97 when it had seven-straight games with 85 or more points scored.
• The Wolfpack limited Washington State to just 34 points, which tied as the best scoring defense for the team under the leadership of head coach Wes Moore.
• NC State's 48-point win over Towson is its biggest margin of victory through seven games this season. The team also set early season bests in points scored (100), field-goal percentage (.559) and rebounds (54) in the outing.
• NC State has had at least three players score in double figures in five of six wins this season. Its best mark was its win over Florida when five different players, including two players off the bench, scored at least 11 points.
• Eight players averaged at least seven points per game during the Preseason WNIT, and all of those players shot 50+ percent from the field each with at least 20 attempts over the course of four games.
• NC State has shot 50 percent or better from the field in four of its six wins and has held five of six of those teams to under 35 percent shooting.
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RALEIGH – Second-ranked NC State women's hoops (6-1) faces its first true road test of the season on Thursday evening as it makes the trip to take on sixth-ranked Indiana (5-1) in the 2021 installment of the B1G/ACC Challenge. Tip-off between the Wolfpack and the Hoosiers is set for 7 p.m. from Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind., and the game will be televised nationally on ESPN2.
Thursday's contest marks NC State's third top-10 faceoff in the first 25 days of the 2021-22 campaign.
A WIN ON THURSDAY WOULD
• Be the 973rd win in program history (972-475)
• Be head coach Wes Moore's 755th career win (754-235)
• Be Moore's 197th win at NC State (196-66)
• Extend the Wolfpack's winning streak in the B1G/ACC Challenge to three games
• Mark NC State's second over a top-10 opponent this season
NOTING THE WOLFPACK (6-1)
• NC State moved up three spots to land in a tie for No. 2 in the latest Associated Press Top 25. The Wolfpack is tied with UConn, as each team received 704 votes.
• All of the Pack's six wins in 2021-22 have been by 18 or more points, and the team is outscoring those squads by an average of 30.2 points per game. Four of those six wins have been against Power Five opponents and one from each conference - Florida, Kansas State, Maryland and Washington State.
• Through five games, the Wolfpack is nationally ranked:
7th in three-point percentage (.414)
8th in field-goal percentage (.486)
13th in rebound margin (+13.4)
16th in fewest turnovers per game (12.4)
17th in scoring margin (+24.6)
19th in scoring offense (80.3)
23rd in defensive rebounds per game (30.3)
26th in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.23)
• NC State's overall and three-point shooting percentages both lead the ACC, and the team's scoring offense ranks second in the league.
• Elissa Cunane leads the team in scoring with 14.4 points per game, and she has put together that number with a 53.7 percent clip from the field. Diamond Johnson (13.3) and Jakia Brown-Turner (10.3) join Cunane in averaging double figures. Six players are averaging 7+ points and at least 15 minutes per game through seven balanced scoring outings.
• The Pack is 5-0 in games during which it has at least three players score 10+ points.
• The Wolfpack's 8.3 three pointers per game ranks third in the ACC, and the team is also averaging 35.1 points in the paint.
SERIES HISTORY (NC State leads 4-1)
• Thursday marks the sixth overall meeting between NC State and Indiana. It will be the second season in a row that the two squads face each other, and the first time since 2016-17 doing so in the regular season.
• NC State and Indiana last met on March 27, 2021 in the Sweet Sixteen of the 2021 NCAA Tournament. The Hoosiers picked up their first win in the series, a three-point 73-70 decision in San Antonio, to advance to the Elite Eight.
• The Wolfpack has taken on the Hoosiers in the B1G/ACC Challenge one other time, hosting them in the 2016 edition of the event and winning by an 84-70 score.
• Last season's meeting marked the first time that the squads faced off while both ranked in the AP Top 25. NC State was ranked third, and Indiana was ranked 12th.
• The Wolfpack has defeated Indiana by as many as 18 points and as few as two points in the series history between the squads.
RANKED WINS UNDER MOORE
NC State has defeated a total of 25 nationally-ranked opponents (25-35) in the Wes Moore era. Five of those have been top-five teams and 11 have been top-10 teams. Since Moore was named head coach ahead of the 2013-14 campaign, the Wolfpack has won six road games against AP Top 25 teams, with four of those occurring against AP Top 10 foes. The most recent of those wins were last season's victories at No. 1 South Carolina and No. 1 Louisville.
DIAMOND DOING IT ALL
• Johnson was named ACC Player of the Week on Monday following a pair of stellar outings against No. 2 Maryland and Washington State. In those wins, she averaged 20.5 points, 7.5 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 4.0 steals.
• Johnson finished just two points shy of her career high with 24 against the Cougars. It was her eighth 20+ point game in her career and the highest scoring performance by a member of the Wolfpack through seven games. She knocked down a season-high 4-of-5 threes in that outing.
• Johnson leads the team in assists (22, 3.1 per game) and steals (15, 2.1 per game). She ranks 15th and sixth in the ACC in those respective categories. Johnson is also second on NC State's team with her season scoring (13.3) and rebounding (6.0) averages.
• Looking at her season marks, Johnson is one of just two players in the ACC to average 10+ points, 5+ rebounds, 3+ assists and 2+ steals. She also has a better field-goal percentage (.513) than the other player with those averages, Celeste Taylor of Duke (.478).
• Johnson is tied for the team lead in made three pointers with 12 this season. She has knocked at
least one triple down in each of the Wolfpack's wins this year.
WOLFPACK IN WINS
• The last time NC State won six straight games by margins of 18+ was when it won nine in a row by 25+ in January and into February of 1979.
• The Pack scored 85+ points four games in a row in the Preseason WNIT, doing so for the first time since 1996-97 when it had seven-straight games with 85 or more points scored.
• The Wolfpack limited Washington State to just 34 points, which tied as the best scoring defense for the team under the leadership of head coach Wes Moore.
• NC State's 48-point win over Towson is its biggest margin of victory through seven games this season. The team also set early season bests in points scored (100), field-goal percentage (.559) and rebounds (54) in the outing.
• NC State has had at least three players score in double figures in five of six wins this season. Its best mark was its win over Florida when five different players, including two players off the bench, scored at least 11 points.
• Eight players averaged at least seven points per game during the Preseason WNIT, and all of those players shot 50+ percent from the field each with at least 20 attempts over the course of four games.
• NC State has shot 50 percent or better from the field in four of its six wins and has held five of six of those teams to under 35 percent shooting.
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