After NC State clinched a series victory over UNC last night in Baseball, I thought it would be a good time to relish in how the Wolfpack has dominated the Tar Heels Athletic Program as a whole in 2023-24.
The Wolfpack Baseball team has won the first two games in the series against the Tar Heels, clinching a series victory over UNC for the first time since 2021. It marks the first time NC State has won a series against the Tar Heels in Raleigh since 2016.
NC State defeated UNC in Volleyball 3-1, winning in Chapel Hill for the first time in 25 years. The Tar Heels had won the last 5 matches against the Wolfpack.
The Wolfpack defeated the Tar Heels 39-20 in Football in Carter-Finley Stadium. It marked the 3rd consecutive win over UNC.
NC State lost both regular season games to UNC in Men’s Basketball, but when it mattered most, the Wolfpack defeated the Tar Heels in the ACC Championship Game 84-76, winning their first title since 1987.
The Wolfpack Women’s Basketball team lost to their rival in Chapel Hill, but defeated UNC 63-59 in Reynolds Coliseum. NC State has won 5 of the last 7 against UNC.
In Gymnastics, NC State defeated UNC 196.725-194.925 in Raleigh. This marked the 3rd straight victory for the Wolfpack over the Tar Heels.
NC State’s Men & Women’s Swimming & Diving teams both beat UNC. The Men won 258-93, and the Women won 196-157.
The Wolfpack Wrestling team defeated UNC 33-6 in Reynolds Coliseum. NC State has won 11 straight Duals against the Tar Heels.
The NC State Men’s Tennis team defeated UNC 4-0, winning against their rival in back-to-back years.
The Wolfpack Women’s Tennis team has defeated the Tar Heels 4-3 on two occasions thus far this season, and will face their rival again today.
The Cross Country teams didn’t have individual meets against UNC, but the Women obviously beat them, because they won the ACC Championship. The Men didn’t, finishing 8th in the Conference, with the Tar Heels finishing 1st.
The only other NC State athletic team that didn’t taste victory against UNC this year was the Women’s Soccer team, losing 0-4 in Raleigh.
Of course, each of these NC State athletic teams has much higher goals than just beating their rival, but there’s no denying how sweet it is to beat the Tar Heels.
Though I am a hard core Dukie, I would love to see State get someone really good like Sean Miller. Please, no Rick Barnes.
To me it seems quite apparent that Dr. Yow has her sights set on Miller…
If his salary is 2.1 million she’s gonna have to pony up to the 3 million dollar range plus take care of his assistants for him to make the jump…
If we come in with a 2.5 million offer Zona will just match it and we will get turned down…
I am sure that Dr. Yow realizes this…
NC State should NOT hire Rick Barnes. Don’t you remember him from Clemson? Despite the amazing talent he gets every year at Texas, he underachieves every time. He may make State better, but he will never win a National Championship or beat Roy and K regularly. He just doesn’t have it. Forget about Billy Donovan. Now Shaka Smart, maybe. In addition to being a good motivator and young, he can obviously coach and his teams are exciting to watch – something State has not had in a long time.
Good stuff thanks for the info. I would love to get Miller, I just don’t see Arizona letting him go. He would have to really hate it there for him to leave as I would imagine that Arizona would match whatever offer we gave him. He is starting to get them back to where they were in the 90s. I hope he hates those Desert summers as much as I did when I was there. As far as Barnes go, we couldn’t go wrong with him either. We’d just probably be in need of another coach in the next 10… Read more »
How about Jeff Capel, who I think is perhaps the most logical choice based on his NC roots and coaching pedigree (his father has coached forever and he played under Coack K).
How about no? We want a winner, not someone who is an average coach in the Big 12. I don’t care if a person has NC roots or not, I want a real good/great coach that will give their all to our school. NC roots should not be a prerequisite to coach at our school. Also, I don’t think that hiring a former Coach K player is the smartest of moves.