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#5 NC State Returns to Action with Thursday Road Trip to Clemson
12/29/2021 9:29:00 AM | Women's Basketball
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RALEIGH – No. 5 NC State women's basketball (11-2, 2-0 ACC) steps back into action on Thursday night when it makes the trip to take on Clemson (6-6, 0-1 ACC). Tip-off between the Wolfpack and the Tigers is set for 7 p.m. from Littlejohn Coliseum, and the game will be aired live on ACCNX.
A WIN ON THURSDAY WOULD
• Be the 978th win in program history (977-476)
• Be head coach Wes Moore's 760th career win (759-236)
• Be Moore's 202nd win at NC State (201-67)
• Be Moore's 92nd ACC victory with the Pack (91-39)
• Extend the Wolfpack's winning streak against Clemson to 13 games and mark its seventh-straight road win over the Tigers
• Mark NC State's 10th in a row overall against a conference opponent (including three 2021 ACC Tournament wins)
• Give the Pack a 3-0 start to conference play for the fourth season in a row
NOTING THE WOLFPACK (11-2, 2-0 ACC)
• NC State has already picked up a pair of December league wins against Pitt and Virginia. The Wolfpack joins Notre Dame as the only two ACC teams to play a pair of league contests at this point in the season, and both teams rank atop the conference standings with their matching records.
• NC State has been ranked No. 5 in the last two releases of the Associated Press Top 25. The Wolfpack owns the longest active top-five streak in NCAA Division I women's basketball at 23 polls in a row.
• The Wolfpack finished non-conference play with a 9-2 record. Both of its losses came to teams ranked in the national top 20 (No. 1 South Carolina and No. 17 Georgia). NC State earned a non-conference road victory over No. 6 Indiana earlier in the month.
• The Wolfpack is nationally ranked:
4th in field-goal percentage (.482)
4th in three-point percentage (.418)
11th in scoring margin (+23.1)
13th in scoring offense (81.4)
18th in rebound margin (+10.8)
20th in fewest turnovers per game (12.5)
22nd in defensive rebounds per game (30.0)
26th in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.22)
• NC State's three-point percentage leads the league, and the team is second in the league in overall field-goal percentage, scoring offense, scoring margin and free throw percentage.
• Elissa Cunane leads the team in scoring with 13.5 points per game, and Diamond Johnson is the only other player averaging double figures with 12.6 per game. Both players rank in the top 21 in the league in scoring.
• The Wolfpack averages 8.6 three pointers per game, and the team is also averaging 34.9 points in the paint.
• NC State has out-rebounded and out-shot each opponent that it has defeated this season.
SERIES HISTORY (NC State leads 60-30)
• Thursday's game marks the 91st overall meeting between NC State and Clemson. The teams have faced off at least once every season since the 1976-77 campaign.
• The Wolfpack has won its last 12 games played against the Tigers. Clemson has not picked up a win in the series since Jan. 6, 2011.
• NC State enters the matchup with a 19-18 record when playing Clemson on the road. The Wolfpack has earned the win in its last six road trips to Clemson, with its last road loss to the Tigers coming on Jan. 31, 2010.
• Under the leadership of Coach Moore, NC State is 8-0 against Clemson. Moore is 11-2 (.846) against the Tigers on his career.
• NC State and Clemson last faced off on Feb. 11, 2021 inside Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh. The Wolfpack held the Tigers scoreless for the first four and a half minutes of the game and never trailed on the way to posting an 86-65 home win.
ACC ACTION
• NC State has opened ACC play with a 3-0 record three seasons in a row dating back to the 2018-19 campaign. That year, the squad secured its third-best start to conference play in program history when it won eight ACC games before a league loss.
• The Wolfpack has racked up 14 regular-season conference wins since the start of last season (2020-21) and has won those outings by an average of 18.1 points.
• Raina Perez (15.5), Cunane (13.0) and Camille Hobby (12.5) all average double figures against ACC opponents this season. Perez is shooting a blistering 12-of-17 (.706) overall and 6-of-9 (.667) from three-point range in league play to rank in the top five of both of those categories.
• After defeating Pitt on Dec. 10 in its 2021-22 league opener, NC State is 31-14 all-time in its first games against ACC opponents and 7-2 in ACC openers under the leadership of Coach Moore.
#GoPack | @PackWomensBball
RALEIGH – No. 5 NC State women's basketball (11-2, 2-0 ACC) steps back into action on Thursday night when it makes the trip to take on Clemson (6-6, 0-1 ACC). Tip-off between the Wolfpack and the Tigers is set for 7 p.m. from Littlejohn Coliseum, and the game will be aired live on ACCNX.
A WIN ON THURSDAY WOULD
• Be the 978th win in program history (977-476)
• Be head coach Wes Moore's 760th career win (759-236)
• Be Moore's 202nd win at NC State (201-67)
• Be Moore's 92nd ACC victory with the Pack (91-39)
• Extend the Wolfpack's winning streak against Clemson to 13 games and mark its seventh-straight road win over the Tigers
• Mark NC State's 10th in a row overall against a conference opponent (including three 2021 ACC Tournament wins)
• Give the Pack a 3-0 start to conference play for the fourth season in a row
NOTING THE WOLFPACK (11-2, 2-0 ACC)
• NC State has already picked up a pair of December league wins against Pitt and Virginia. The Wolfpack joins Notre Dame as the only two ACC teams to play a pair of league contests at this point in the season, and both teams rank atop the conference standings with their matching records.
• NC State has been ranked No. 5 in the last two releases of the Associated Press Top 25. The Wolfpack owns the longest active top-five streak in NCAA Division I women's basketball at 23 polls in a row.
• The Wolfpack finished non-conference play with a 9-2 record. Both of its losses came to teams ranked in the national top 20 (No. 1 South Carolina and No. 17 Georgia). NC State earned a non-conference road victory over No. 6 Indiana earlier in the month.
• The Wolfpack is nationally ranked:
4th in field-goal percentage (.482)
4th in three-point percentage (.418)
11th in scoring margin (+23.1)
13th in scoring offense (81.4)
18th in rebound margin (+10.8)
20th in fewest turnovers per game (12.5)
22nd in defensive rebounds per game (30.0)
26th in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.22)
• NC State's three-point percentage leads the league, and the team is second in the league in overall field-goal percentage, scoring offense, scoring margin and free throw percentage.
• Elissa Cunane leads the team in scoring with 13.5 points per game, and Diamond Johnson is the only other player averaging double figures with 12.6 per game. Both players rank in the top 21 in the league in scoring.
• The Wolfpack averages 8.6 three pointers per game, and the team is also averaging 34.9 points in the paint.
• NC State has out-rebounded and out-shot each opponent that it has defeated this season.
SERIES HISTORY (NC State leads 60-30)
• Thursday's game marks the 91st overall meeting between NC State and Clemson. The teams have faced off at least once every season since the 1976-77 campaign.
• The Wolfpack has won its last 12 games played against the Tigers. Clemson has not picked up a win in the series since Jan. 6, 2011.
• NC State enters the matchup with a 19-18 record when playing Clemson on the road. The Wolfpack has earned the win in its last six road trips to Clemson, with its last road loss to the Tigers coming on Jan. 31, 2010.
• Under the leadership of Coach Moore, NC State is 8-0 against Clemson. Moore is 11-2 (.846) against the Tigers on his career.
• NC State and Clemson last faced off on Feb. 11, 2021 inside Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh. The Wolfpack held the Tigers scoreless for the first four and a half minutes of the game and never trailed on the way to posting an 86-65 home win.
ACC ACTION
• NC State has opened ACC play with a 3-0 record three seasons in a row dating back to the 2018-19 campaign. That year, the squad secured its third-best start to conference play in program history when it won eight ACC games before a league loss.
• The Wolfpack has racked up 14 regular-season conference wins since the start of last season (2020-21) and has won those outings by an average of 18.1 points.
• Raina Perez (15.5), Cunane (13.0) and Camille Hobby (12.5) all average double figures against ACC opponents this season. Perez is shooting a blistering 12-of-17 (.706) overall and 6-of-9 (.667) from three-point range in league play to rank in the top five of both of those categories.
• After defeating Pitt on Dec. 10 in its 2021-22 league opener, NC State is 31-14 all-time in its first games against ACC opponents and 7-2 in ACC openers under the leadership of Coach Moore.
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