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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 .
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 ...
North Carolina State's victory has often been considered one of the greatest upsets in college basketball history, and is the fourth biggest point-spread upset in Championship Game history. Akeem Olajuwon of Houston was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player , becoming the last player to date to earn this award while playing for a team ...
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 ...
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 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.
Lorenzo Emile Charles [1] (November 25, 1963 – June 27, 2011) [2] was an American college and professional basketball player. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Charles played basketball for North Carolina State University and scored the game-winning points in the championship game of the 1983 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
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.