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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 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 ...
In the championship game, State defeated rival North Carolina, which had gone undefeated in conference play. State finished second in the conference the following year and was a #3 seed in the NCAA tournament. The team made an early exit, though, losing to #14 seed Murray State in the first round. [11]
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.
Ten members of the 1983 NC State men's basketball team are suing the NCAA for not compensating them for using ... 2024 at 7:43 PM. ... upset Houston 54–52 in the 1983 national championship game.
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).
Lowe, a senior point guard on the Wolfpack’s ’83 NCAA title team, later coached NC State for five seasons, but did not have same success.