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The game was played on April 4, 1983, at The Pit in Albuquerque, New Mexico and paired top-ranked, #1 seed Midwest Regional Champions, the Houston Cougars, and sixteenth-ranked, #6 seed West Regional Champions, the NC State Wolfpack. [2] Hobbled by Clyde Drexler’s four first-half fouls, Houston trailed NC State at the end of the first half ...
The Wolfpack did not assure themselves of a tournament bid until they upset Virginia in the championship game of the ACC tournament. North Carolina State became the first team in tournament history to win six games en route to the title (the tournament being 32 teams or fewer prior to 1979, and all champions from 1979 to 1982 had first-round byes).
The 1982–83 NC State Wolfpack men's basketball team represented North Carolina State University. The Wolfpack were a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The team went 26–10 on the year, winning the ACC tournament and the NCAA National Championship .
It had been just four years since Valvano and the Pack’s magical ride to the 1983 national championship. State fought past North Carolina and Michael Jordan in the semifinals, then Ralph Sampson ...
NC State player Lorenzo Charles dunks the winning shot at the buzzer to win the 1983 NCAA National Championship. But that team had a core group of guards Dereck Whittenburg and Sidney Lowe and ...
The Wolfpack men and women advanced to the Elite Eight in the same year for the first time in program history. Myers, a program alumnus, gets a front-row seat.
The 1983 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball tournament was held in Atlanta, Georgia, at the Omni Coliseum from March 11–13. NC State defeated Virginia, 81–78, to win the championship. [1] Sidney Lowe of NC State was named tournament MVP. [1] It was the first time the event was held in Atlanta.
From UNC’s unbeaten 1957 men’s championship, N.C. State’s two titles and Duke’s back-to-back winners, to North Carolina’s 1994 women’s title, the Triangle excels in basketball.