North Carolina State University Athletics
Sunday, December 31
Charlottesville, Va.
6 PM
NC State
at
Virginia
#3 Wolfpack Opens ACC Play with Sunday Road Game at Virginia
12/30/2023 10:20:00 AM | Women's Basketball
GAME NOTES | LIVE STATS | ACC NETWORK
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – After going a perfect 12-0 in non-conference play, third-ranked NC State women's basketball steps into ACC action as it visits Virginia (8-3) for its 2023-24 league opener on Sunday evening.
Tip-off between the Wolfpack and the Cavaliers is set for 6 p.m. from John Paul Jones Arena, and the game will be televised nationally on the ACC Network. Live radio coverage will also be available on WKNC 88.1 FM in Raleigh and on the GoPack and Varsity Network apps.
A WIN ON SUNDAY WOULD
ACC ACTION
SERIES HISTORY (Series tied 41-41)
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – After going a perfect 12-0 in non-conference play, third-ranked NC State women's basketball steps into ACC action as it visits Virginia (8-3) for its 2023-24 league opener on Sunday evening.
Tip-off between the Wolfpack and the Cavaliers is set for 6 p.m. from John Paul Jones Arena, and the game will be televised nationally on the ACC Network. Live radio coverage will also be available on WKNC 88.1 FM in Raleigh and on the GoPack and Varsity Network apps.
A WIN ON SUNDAY WOULD
- Be the 1,031st win in program history (1,030-490)
- Be head coach Wes Moore's 813th career win (812-250)
- Be Moore's 255th win at NC State (254-81)
- Give the Wolfpack a 13-0 start for the third time in 11 seasons of the Moore era and the fourth time in program history
- Mark the team's eighth straight season winning its ACC opener
ACC ACTION
- The Wolfpack remains the conference's only unbeaten team in 2023-24 as it heads into league action.
- NC State is 8-2 in league openers under the leadership of Moore.
- The Pack has won seven ACC openers in a row in a streak that started with an upset over No. 2 Notre Dame in 2016-17.
- Since the league officially started regular-season conference play in 1977-78, NC State is 32-14 all-time in its first games against ACC opponents.
SERIES HISTORY (Series tied 41-41)
- Sunday marks the 83rd overall meeting between NC State and Virginia. With the exception of the 2020-21 COVID season, the teams have faced off at least once every season since the Pack's first as a varsity squad in 1974-75.
- Last year, the teams split games and each won on their home court. The Pack's victory in the first meeting, an 87-52 victory on Jan. 8, 2023, briefly pushed the overall series in NC State's favor for the first time since the 1990s.
- Virginia went on to win the most recent meeting between the squads, snapping a six-game winning streak that NC State had over the Cavaliers. UVA won that contest, played in Charlottesville, by a 71-59 score.
- Prior to that game, NC State had won six in a row over the Cavaliers with an average margin of victory of 22.3 points in that stretch.
- NC State is 9-3 against Virginia under the leadership of Coach Moore.
- The Pack is 16-21 when playing on the road against the Cavaliers.
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