NC State
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Coastal Carolina
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No. 16 NC State Defeats Coastal Carolina
11/19/2025 8:52:00 PM | Women's Basketball
RALEIGH – The No. 16/16 NC State women's basketball team bounced back to win over Coastal Carolina, 71-58 on Wednesday. NC State led in all but three minutes in the game.
Ten different Pack players scored, highlighted by Maddie Cox's career-high 11 points in her second career start. The Pack logged a season-high 20 assists, with Zoe Brooks and Zamareya Jones logging eight apiece.
The Pack used a 14-0 run to jump out to an 18-7 lead after the first quarter. The Pack held the Chanticleers scoreless for the remaining 7:38 of the quarter after Coastal went ahead 7-4 early in the game. Maddie Cox logged eight of the Pack's 18 points in the quarter, outscoring the Chants in the first, already matching a career-high in points in the first seven minutes of the game.
Cox earned a career-high and surpassed double digits in scoring in the opening minutes of the second quarter, as she knocked down her third 3-pointer of the game. NC State held the Chants scoreless for 13:39 until Coastal made two free throws with less than four minutes left in the first half with the Pack's largest lead being at 23. The Pack closed out the first half on an 8-2 run to lead 34-13 at the half.
In the first half, NC State held Coastal to 16 percent shooting from the field (5-for-31) and six percent from 3-point (1-for-16). NC State scored 18 points off Coastal's 15 first-half turnovers.
The Chants started the third quarter outscoring the Pack 23-8 in the first seven minutes of the quarter, and cut the deficit to as little as nine with 1:37 left in the quarter. NC State finished the quarter on a 5-0 run, as the Pack led 53-39 after three. Coastal outscored NC State 26-19 in the quarter.
NC State went 3-of-4 from deep in the first four minutes of the quarter, including two from Destiny "Ky'She" Lunan. A Jones 3-pointer extended the lead to 17 with 6:31 left in the game until Coastal outscored the Pack 13-5 to end the game. NC State was outscored 45-37 in the second half.
PACK PERFORMERS
- Jones provided an all-around performance in the victory with 13 points, a career-best eight assists, six rebounds, and a personal-high four steals. She also logged a 19 +/-
- Brooks also provided a strong stat line with 13 points, eight assists, and six rebounds
- Cox made her second-career start in the win, scoring in double figures with 11 points that all came in the first half. She finished the game shooting an efficient 4-of-7 from the field and 3-of-5 from three
- Qadence Samuels provided a season-high performance on the boards for the second consecutive game, tonight with seven rebounds
- Khamil Pierre led the Wolfpack on the boards with 10. She also added nine points on 4-of-4 shooting from the field
- The Pack held Coastal Carolina to 13 first-half points, the Chants' fewest points in a first half this campaign
- Lunan (6), Lorena Awou (4), Mallory Collier (4), and Devyn Quigley (3) notched 17 points off the bench for NC State, outscoring the Coastal Carolina reserves, 17-8
- The Wolfpack outrebounded Coastal Carolina, 45-37
- NC State generated 21 transition points, while limiting the Chants to only seven fastbreak points
- NC State forced Coastal Carolina into 21 turnovers and converted them into 28 points
POSTGAME QUOTES
Head Coach Wes Moore
Opening Statement:
On front court:
"Again, I'm not going to limit this to them. My whole team's got to be better. We have been playing as well as anybody. I don't know if we got on the ball enough. I'll see when we look at the film. Then they need to make reads if they're double-teamed. They need to slow down, and make the pass out, because when I look at the turnovers, we had two interior players with five turnovers, and four turnovers. But again, our whole team had too many turnovers with 21 turnovers and 20 assists. Again, this is a step in the right direction. So hopefully we can continue that trend, but I think I think the whole team, and from coaches to players, we just need to do a better job and clean this stuff up in a hurry or we'll be in trouble."
On Rhode Island:
"I mean, obviously, I haven't looked at them yet. The coaches, as soon as we get upstairs, they'll hand me the scout and the film and all that. I do remember playing them a couple of years ago; they're long, they're athletic, and it was a very close game. So like I said, the games are getting tougher, and we're going to have to grow up, clean it up, and fix it in a hurry because the competition's rising. Just look at the upsets going on all around. I mean, a lot of power four teams are getting beat by mid majors. So you have to show up every night, and like I said, you have to put the preparation in. Which, like I said, that's worrying me about this team. The great teams I've had, they bought in. They wanted to watch film. They wanted to take away the other team's go-to stuff, you know? They got excited about shutting down a certain set, certain offense, whatever. So, we got to hope we can reach that point with this team."
Student-Athletes Quotes: (Zoe Brooks and Maddie Cox)
On getting her first start of the season:
MC - "I found out today when going over film and I was just excited to finally get an opportunity to show what I can do out there."
On giving up 26 third-quarter points:
ZB - "I'll give them credit. They did get hot and started knocking down shots, and got a couple And-1s. I think that we began to lose focus. We had a large lead coming into the second half so I think that was us losing focus, but credit to them for hitting some shots."
On cleaning up team turnovers:
MC - "We've always emphasized chemistry and bonding as a team. I think that got a little sloppy in the second half, but we will continue to pick that up and move on to the next game.
ZB - "I feel like a lot of the turnovers were travels but I don't know if they were really travels, but I feel like a lot of them were travels."
UPCOMING
NC State will finish its homestand against Rhode Island on Sunday, Nov. 23 at 2 p.m. The game will be streamed on ACC Network Extra. Tickets for the game can be purchased HERE.
