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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 ...
Gannon played basketball for North Carolina State University, and under coach Jim Valvano, he was a member of the 1983 Wolfpack "Cardiac Pack" national championship-winning team. He was recognized as an Academic All-American twice, was NC State's all-time leading free throw shooter in 1983, and was ranked the second all-time Wolfpack player in ...
The Wolfpack won the NCAA championship in 1974 and 1983. The team competed in the Southern Conference until becoming a charter member of the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1953. [1] NC State has won the ACC men's basketball tournament eleven times, [2] which is the third most of any school in the conference.
N.C. State’s victory over Houston on the Lorenzo Charles dunk still resonates with those who were there. ‘We couldn’t lose’: Behind the scenes of NC State basketball’s improbable 1983 ...
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 ...
NC State basketball struck a blow for the underdog by winning the NCAA Tournament in 1983. The Wolfpack are trying to do it again, 41 years later.
N.C. State’s Michael O’Connell reacts in the second half of the Wolfpack’s 79-73 overtime win in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday, March 23, 2024, at PPG Paints Arena in ...
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 .