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The Wolfpack knocked off Wake Forest in the first game and North Carolina in the semifinals [1] before recording their first victory over then-#2 Virginia in the finals. [2] On Selection Sunday, NC State found out it would be playing in the West Region of the tournament as the number six seed. This region presented the Wolfpack with a ...
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 opponent in the championship game: Houston. A No. 1 NCAA seed in 1983, Houston is a No. 1 NCAA seed in 2024. And in Dallas. Maybe there are some shades of ‘83 in the Pack’s NCAA run, after ...
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).
Clutching it like it was an ACC championship trophy. No one expected N.C. State to be the ACC champion in 1987. North Carolina was undefeated in the league and ranked No. 2 in the country.
The Wolfpack’s schedule from Sept. 14 through Oct. 12 should be the easiest portion, with the exception of its road game at Clemson. N.C. State plays four games at Carter-Finley Stadium, and it ...
The 1982–83 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began in November 1982 and ended with the Final Four in Albuquerque, New Mexico on April 4, 1983. The NC State Wolfpack won their second NCAA national championship with a 54–52 victory over the No. 1-ranked and heavily favored Houston Cougars.
N.C. State is back on basketball's biggest stage for the first time since the late Jim Valvano was sprinting around the court looking for someone to hug after winning the 1983 national title with ...