North Carolina State University Athletics
Thursday, November 27
Riviera Maya, Mexico
4 PM
NC State
vs
Green Bay
No. 25/24 NC State Women’s Basketball Set for Cancun Challenge
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RIVIERA MAYA, Mexico – The No. 25 NC State women's basketball is in Cancun for two games for the Cancun Challenge. NC State will play Green Bay on Thursday, Nov. 27 at 4 p.m. and Southern Miss on Friday, Nov. 28 at 4 p.m. Both games will be streamed on FloHoops and can be listened to on the radio on WKNC 88.1 FM.
ABOUT NC STATE
- NC State has started the season 3-3 behind one of the toughest schedules in the country with three of its first four games being against top 20 opponents
- NC State will play in the Cancun Challenge for the fifth time in the program's history and third time since 2018
- NC State picked up a top 10 win over No. 8/9 Tennessee, 80-77, at the Ro Greensboro Invitational, and has gone 1-2 in its first three ranked matchups
- Khamil Pierre paces the team in points with 13.3 per game and rebounds with 10.8 per game, with her rebounding average and double-doubles totals (3) leading the ACC
- Zoe Brooks leads the Pack with 5.0 assists per game
- Tilda Trygger paces the Pack with 1.6 blocks per game and has a team's best field goal percentage a .489 (22-of-45)
- Destiny "Ky'She" Lunan, Zamareya Jones and Pierre tie for a team's most steals per game with 1.2
- Three different Pack players rank in the top 15 in rebounds per game in the ACC with Pierre (1st - 10.8), Brooks (11th- 8.2) and Trygger (13th- 7.8)
- NC State is second in the league in defensive rebounds per game (32.0), which is 12th in the country and third in rebounds per game (48.17), 19th in the country, and third in least fouls per game (12.5), seventh in the NCAA
SCOUTING OPPONENTS
Green Bay
- Green Bay has started the season 5-1
- Green Bay was picked to win the Horizon League after collecting the regular season and tournament titles last season with a 29-6 overall record and 19-1 league play mark
- Last season in the NCAA Tournament, Green Bay fell to 5-seed Alabama, 81-67 in the College Park, Maryland pod
- The Phoenix brought in All-Horizon League choice Maddy Skorupski, who is also on the Preseason All-League First Team and an Oakland transfer. She averaged 16.1 points and 3.1 assists per game at Oakland last season.
- Green Bay also has two players on the Preseason All-League Second Team with Jenna Guyer (7.0 PPG in 2024-25) Kamy Peppler (9.3 PPG and 4.7 APG in 2024-25)
- Meghan Schultz leads the Phoenix with 16.3 points per game and 5.5 rebounds per game
- Peppler has a team's most 33 assists and Skorupski has a squad's most13 steals and four blocks
Southern Miss
- Southern Miss was projected to finish fifth in the Sun Belt Preseason Poll. The Golden Eagles went 10-21 last season and are now led by Missy Bilderback, who has guided Southern Miss to a 6-0 record in her first season at the helm in Hattiesburg
- Meloney Thames was picked on the Preseason All-SBC Third Team. She averaged 13.1 points per game at ULM last season
- Carly Keats, an Arkansas transfer, leads Southern Miss with 13.6 points per game on 39.4 percent from 3-point. She is also tied with Thames for a team's most assists with 14
- Sakyia White leads the Golden Eagles with 7.6 rebounds per game
- Hayleigh Breland has a team's most steals with nine and Whitney Hart logs a team's most blocks with four
LAST TIME OUT
- NC State fell to Rhode Island 68-63, with the Rams making a 7-0 run at the end to close the game out
- Jones led the Pack with 17 points, registering 10 in the first quarter
- Pierre finished with a near double-double behind 14 points and eight rebounds with a season-high four assists, two steals and one block. She had 10 of those points in the third quarter
- Trygger finished with eight points and eight boards and Lunan logged eight points off the bench
- NC State outrebounded Rhode Island 35-25
SERIES HISTORY
Vs. Green Bay (0-0)
- This is the first game of the all-time series
Vs. Southern Miss (NC State leads 1-0)
- NC State and Southern Miss will play for the second time in the all-time series
- NC State defeated Southern Miss 78-43 at home on Nov. 20, 1999
UPCOMING
NC State will play at Oklahoma for the ACC/SEC Challenge on Wednesday, Dec. 3 for a 7 p.m. tipoff. The game will be broadcast on ESPN2.
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