Women’s Basketball Back on Road to Play Boston College

Thursday, January 29

Chestnut Hill, Mass.

6 PM

NC State

Boston College

Women’s Basketball Back on Road to Play Boston College

1/28/2026 10:46:00 AM | Women's Basketball

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RALEIGH – NC State will head back on the road, this time to face Boston College at Conte Forum on Thursday, Jan. 29 at 6 p.m. The game will be broadcast on ACC Network.

ABOUT NC STATE

NC State has started the ACC season 7-2 and is third place in the league standings halfway through play
The Wolfpack played its second consecutive overtime game, first time since 2017, and came out with a different outcome with a 78-76 win at Virginia
NC State will look for its third straight road ACC win, as the Pack travels north to play Boston College
NC State is No. 25 in the NET with two Quad 1 wins and four quad 2 wins
With one of the toughest schedules in the country, NC State has the best average opponent NET ranking (70), which leads the country by nine, and has the fifth best NET SOS. NC State also has the third best WAB (wins above the bubble) mark in the ACC at 3.21
Khamil Pierre leads the team in scoring (16.3) on 53.5 percent shooting (145-271) and rebounding (11.7), while also leading the league in defensive rebounds (8.3). She is sixth in the country in rebounding and eighth in double-doubles in the NCAA (12)
Zoe Brooks paces the Pack with 4.7 assists per game and bumped up her scoring average by 1.2 points per game to now average 15.8 points per game
Zamareya Jones has a team's best 1.2 steals per game and a team's most 43 3-pointers, while also averaging 14.6 points per game
Tilda Trygger paces the Pack with 1.5 blocks per game and is tied with Pierre for a team's best field goal percentage a .535 (83-155), averaging 11.5 points per game
Three different Pack players rank in the top 25 in scoring in the ACC with Pierre (4th - 16.3), Brooks (8th - 15.8) and Jones (12th - 14.6), and two rank in the top 10 in rebounding with Pierre (1st - 11.7) and Trygger (9th - 8.3)
NC State leads the league in rebounds per game (45.15) and defensive rebounds per game (32.3), which are fifth and third in the country, respectively
Brooks is coming off a career-high 37 points at Virginia, which marked the most points in a game for a member of the Pack since 1998 and ninth most in school history. She also broke program records in free throws made (19) and free throws attempted (20). She was named ACC Player of the Week and USBWA National Player of the Week
Pierre was named one of 25 on the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year Watchlist on Tuesday

SCOUTING BOSTON COLLEGE

Boston College was picked to finish 17th in the ACC Preseason Poll. The Eagles went 16-18 and 6-12 in ACC play with an appearance in the NCAA WBIT last year
This season, BC is 4-18 and 0-9 in league play
Lily Carmody leads BC with 11.7 points per game and 23 steals
Amirah Anderson and Kayla Rolph tie for a team's most 4.7 rebounds per game. Anderson also has a team's most five blocks
Athena Tomlinson paces the team with 106 assists
Six players average 5.5 points per game or more

LAST TIME OUT

NC State bounced back in its consecutive overtime game with a 78-76 overtime win at Virginia
Brooks paced the Pack with a career-high 37 points, the ninth most points in a single game in school history. Her 19 free throws made and 20 attempts marked program and JPJ Arena records. She also added five rebounds and five assists
Pierre earned her 12th double-double of the season with 15 points and 12 rebounds with one steal
Jones recorded 14 points and came up with a big defensive play down the stretch in overtime
The Pack won the rebounding battle (46-45) and the battle in points off turnovers (21-13) and points in the paint (32-30)

SERIES HISTORY (NC STATE LEADS 23-9)

NC State and BC will play for the 33rd time in the all-time series
The first meeting was in 2006, the first year BC joined the ACC, resulting in a 75-66 loss for NC State
The Pack is on a two-game winning streak vs. BC and six-game road winning streak
NC State has won 12 of the last 13 matchups
NC State is 9-6 on the road at BC
Last year, NC State won 91-52 at home. Brooks logged an 11-point, 11-rebound double-double, Trygger had 10 points and Devyn Quigley delivered an ACC-high 11 points with six boards off the bench

UPCOMING
The Pack will return home to host North Carolina on Monday, Feb. 2 for the 21st annual Play for Kay game. The game will tipoff at 6 p.m. on ESPN2 with a special halftime recognition honoring women who are cancer survivors.