NC State Basketball
NC State’s MJ Rice to Sit out the Remainder of the Season
Prior to the Wolfpack’s road game against Virginia tonight, NC State just sent out a press release stating that Sophomore MJ Rice will sit out the remainder of the season, and that the school will submit a waiver for this season to count as a redshirt season.
Rice was a massive pickup for NC State out of the Transfer Portal this past offseason.
The Kansas transfer played in 23 games for the Jayhawks as a Freshman this past year, averaging 2.2 points in 7.6 minutes per game. ON3 ranked Rice as the #24 overall player nationally in the 2022 recruiting class. They also ranked him as the #2 overall player in the Transfer Portal.
Prior to this season, Rice stepped away from the program for personal reasons, and missed the first 7 games, before joining the Wolfpack against Maryland Eastern-Shore.
Since joining the Pack, Rice hasn’t carved out a significant role for himself, averaging 4.1 points in 8.8 minutes per game. Rice didn’t play in the last two games, and prior to that, he only averaged 5.25 minutes in the previous 4 games. In the last two games he played in, Rice played 6 minutes against UNC and 2 minutes against Louisville.
At this point, I have no concrete information on why Rice is sitting out the remainder of the season.
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.
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Just give Breon the minutes he deserves anyway…he’s the most athletic guard you have on the team and most likely the best shooter as well. Not to mention LOYAL cause anyone else would have been outta there.Case in point ALL the transfers who committed elsewhere but now they are in Raleigh .
Let Rice play and sit KKIAL for the rest of the season. How could you just forget about Rice? He has the most talent on this team. Now he is probably gone. But if he stays and KKIAL is gone, that would be a fair trade.
I’m afraid that as soon as he get the waiver to sit out, he will be transferring. We will just have to wait and see. Another KKIAL mistake.