Pack to Face South Carolina in Exhibition Game Sunday in Greensboro

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RALEIGH, N.C. – The NC State men's basketball team plays its lone exhibition game ahead of the 2025-26 regular season Sunday when it faces South Carolina inside the First Horizon Center in Greensboro.

Tipoff against the Gamecocks is scheduled for 4:30 p.m.

There will be no television or streaming option, but Voice of the Pack Matt Chazanow and new men's basketball analyst – and former Pack great – Chucky Brown will call the action on the Wolfpack Sports Network.

Pack Tracks
- Sunday will mark the first of two games in Greensboro for the Pack this season and both games are against SEC opponents. NC State will play Ole Miss on Sunday, Dec. 21 in the First Horizon Center at 1 pm with the game televised on ESPN.
- Red Reckoning: On March 23, 2025, Will Wade was announced as the head coach of the NC State men's basketball program. Wade comes to NC State after leading McNeese to a combined 58-11 record and back-to-back Southland regular season and tournament titles in his two seasons at Lake Charles. His final win with the Cowboys was on March 20th when he led McNeese to a 69-67 win over fifth-seed Clemson in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. That win was the first March Madness win in McNeese history.
- A native of Nashville, Tenn., Wade has previously served as head coach at Chattanooga, VCU, LSU and McNeese. He brings 11 years of head coaching experience to the Wolfpack and has led his programs to seven NCAA Tournament berths, including appearances in the last five.
- Wade turned over the NC State roster from last season's 12-19 team. He only brought back just one scholarship player (Paul McNeil, Jr.) from last season and just two players overall (McNeil and walk-on Jordan Snell). The Pack's top-eight scorers from last season are not returning to this year's team and you now have to go back to the 2011-12 & 2012-13 seasons to mark the last time NC State had the same leading scorer in back-to-back seasons.
- The Pack added 13 scholarship players to its roster this offseason. Nine transferred from other D1 institutions, two are international players that played overseas professionally last season and the final two are traditional freshmen that played high school basketball last season.
- NC State returns just 4.7% of its scoring, 3.3% of its rebounding and 4.8% of its assists from last season.

NC State series with South Carolina
- NC State leads the all-time series with South Carolina, 49-28. The first meeting between the two programs dates back to the 1912-13 season.
- Sunday's meeting will not count in the official standings between the two programs, but the Universities have a long history with each other. Both programs were in the Southern Conference from 1922 until both became founding members of the ACC in 1953. South Carolina left the ACC in the summer of 1971. Since that summer, they've only played each other five times.
- Last Regular Season Meeting (November 23, 2007): NC State beat South Carolina, 63-61, in the semifinals of the Old Spice Classic in Orlando, Fla. The Pack went on a 15-3 run in the second half to turn a 49-40 deficit into a 55-52 lead with four minutes to play. Brandon Costner led NC State with 21 points in the victory.

Pack to Face South Carolina in Exhibition Game Sunday in Greensboro

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Paul McNeil

Jordan Snell