NC State Women’s Basketball team released their 2024-25 Non-Conference Schedule yesterday.
RALEIGH, N.C. – The NC State women’s basketball program has announced its non-conference slate for the 2024-25 season, as revealed on Thursday.
The Pack will play eight of its 11 games, in addition to a preseason exhibition, at Reynolds Coliseum. Coming off a historical 2023-24 season that was highlighted by the program’s first Final Four since 1998, second in program history, head coach Wes Moore is entering his 12th season at the helm. With a strong home court advantage, the Pack has accumulated a 117-15 (.886) record at home since the renovation of Reynolds Coliseum was completed in August 2016.
NC State will participate in the Pink Flamingo Championship at Baha Mar in Nassau, Bahamas on Monday, Nov. 25 and Wednesday, Nov. 27 against opponents that will be announced at a later date. As previously announced, NC State will play the defending NCAA Champion South Carolina at the Ally Tipoff at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte on Sunday, Nov. 10, as well as host Ole Miss for the SEC/ACC Challenge on Thursday, Dec. 5.
The Wolfpack will host Anderson (S.C.) for an exhibition on Tuesday, Oct. 29 before officially starting the season at home vs. ETSU on Tuesday, Nov. 5. Following the Ally Tipoff, NC State will return home to host Kent State on Thursday, Nov. 14.
NC State’s first true road game of the season is at TCU on Sunday, Nov. 17. The Pack will then play Coastal Carolina at home on Thursday, Nov. 21 before its trip to the Bahamas for two games (Nov. 25-27).
The Pack will close out the non-conference slate with four straight games at Reynolds Coliseum, starting with the SEC/ACC Challenge game vs. Ole Miss (Thursday, Dec. 5). NC State will then host Old Dominion (Sunday, Dec. 8), Davidson (Wednesday, Dec. 11) and James Madison (Thursday, Dec. 19) to wrap up non-conference play.
With NC State’s known non-conference opponents, six are coming off postseason tournament appearances. Three received NCAA Tournament bids (Kent State, Ole Miss and NCAA Champion South Carolina), two were invited to play in the WBIT (TCU and James Madison) and one played in the WNIT (Old Dominion).
NC State’s Atlantic Coast Conference schedule will be announced by the league office at a later date. NC State will play Wake Forest, Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Miami, Notre Dame, Pitt, Virginia and Virginia Tech at home. The Pack will take on Wake Forest, Cal, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, North Carolina, SMU, Stanford and Syracuse on the road.
Season tickets are sold out for the 2024-25 season. Tip-off times and television designations will also be released at a later date.
2024-25 Non-Conference Schedule
Tuesday, Oct. 29 – Anderson (Exh.)
Tuesday, Nov. 5 – ETSU
Sunday, Nov. 10 – South Carolina $
Thursday, Nov. 14 – Kent State
Sunday, Nov. 17 – at TCU
Thursday, Nov. 21 – Coastal Carolina
Monday, Nov. 25 – Opponent TBD &
Wednesday, Nov. 27 – Opponent TBD &
Thursday, Dec. 5 – Ole Miss +
Sunday, Dec. 8 – Old Dominion
Wednesday, Dec. 11 – Davidson
Thursday, Dec. 19 – James Madison
$ – Ally Tipoff (Spectrum Center, Charlotte, N.C.)
& – Pink Flamingo Championship (Baha Mar, Nassau, Bahamas)
+ – SEC/ACC Challenge (Raleigh, N.C.)
The NC State Men’s Basketball team revealed the Jersey Numbers for their 2024-25 team yesterday.
Numbers that are Staying the Same
Michael O’Connell – #12
Ben Middlebrooks – #34
Dennis Parker Jr. – #11
KJ Keatts – #13
Jordan Snell – #22
Numbers that have Changed
Jayden Taylor – #1 –> #8
Breon Pass – #10 –> #4
Numbers of New Players
Mike James – #0 (He wore #0 at Louisville last year)
Brandon Huntley-Hatfield – #1 (He wore #5 at Louisville last year)
Paul McNeil – #2 (He wore #2 in High School last year)
Dontrez Styles – #3 (He wore #0 at Georgetown last year)
Trey Parker – #5 (He wore #5 in High School last year)
Marcus Hill – #10 (He wore #0 at Bowling Green last year)
We don’t know what number Ismael Diouf will be wearing at NC State next year yet.
@Wolfer96 I’m not sure how long you’ve been a State fan, but if you can remember the past 25 years then you remember most of those years were spent dreaming of having the talent we have today. Dreaming of the day when our classes were stacked with 4 and 5 stars. Dreaming of a coach who could bring us to the tournament on a regular basis and bring us deep every now and then.
Wolfer, step down off the ledge, bud. This is a young team that has only played a few games together. They are learning. They weren’t recruited to be defensive stoppers. They have the quickness and the length to be great, but they have 12 years of bad habits (reaching, getting out of position) to break. They will improve.
They were without their best shooter and honestly their most skilled bigs
Someone please tell Gott to simplify the offense and just run pick and roll for Dennis. Let him create off the dribble. And stop switching defenses. Just run man to man and get the kids to improve in that defense. We run 3 different defenses out there and aren’t good at any of them. Sometimes it’s just better to keep it simple. Especially when your PGs are freshmen.
Dennis Smith needs a coach that will reign him in. He still takes too many bad shots and looks indecisive at times. I don’t know why he is playing so timid? On one of the missed layups I thought that he should have dunked the ball as he is fully capable of doing. He could have scored 30 easy against that defense if he attacked the whole game. Should have been to FT line at least 20 times.
I must have watched a different game than the writer. I saw bad defense and one on one offense. Yes, I am hoping when we get all three bodies back, the team can gel together. Abu needs to make enormous improvement if he thinks he can play at the next level. His play now would not even qualify him for the D league. Where has the defense gone and when is Smith going to play hard for the team?
You never see anything good, why should now be any different.
Well I have to agree with @wolfpack74. That defense was horrendous. Abu almost single handedly cost us that game with foolish turnovers. That game was not about us being short-handed or Creighton being so awesome. They were well coached and we were not. The refs were blowing the whistle and we were shooting jumpers instead of attacking the basket.
That is absolutely not true. He had that game in single digits until fouls made it impossible to guard anything. If we have Kapita Huff doesn’t go for 20. IF the Refs review for a flagrant Huff is rightly ejected for the dirty hit on Markell. To blame it solely on Coaching and bad defense is stupid.
So you’re saying the only way we win is to have Kapita available and one of their guys ejected? Did you notice that we shot an incredibly high percentage on 3 point shots in the 1st half? Way above our season averages. I could argue that we shot much better than normal and if we shot closer to what we will the rest of the season it would have been a bigger blowout.
I’m a huge fan of Kapita and I would be the 1st one to acknowledge his strengths on the inside but we would have lost that game regardless. Did you not see the offensive plays they were running? Pick and roll to an alley-oop on many occasions. What we should have been doing regardless of Kapita being there or not.
Their guys were finishing at the rim we were taking jump shots and not taking it hard to the basket. It’s coaching and effort.
One more thing… Creighton broke the Paradise Jam record for most points scored. Is anyone surprised that this happened against a Gottfried coached team? BTW, they didn’t break the record against a lesser team (Wash St.) they did it against the Pack. That should be unacceptable for any of us.