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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 ...
For the third time in four games, NC State emerged with a close victory, winning 63-62 after Virginia star Ralph Sampson missed a shot as time expired. [ 6 ] At the Final Four in Albuquerque , New Mexico , the Wolfpack finished off their run to the championship game by defeating Georgia in the semifinals on Saturday, [ 7 ] which set up a ...
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).
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.
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 ...
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.