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NC State Closes Regular Season on a 4-Game Losing Streak, Falling 73-81 to Pitt
NC State (17-14/9-11) finished the regular season on a 4-game losing streak, losing to Pitt (21-10/12-8) 73-81 on the road this evening.
Senior Guard DJ Horne, NC State’s leading scorer, only played 12 minutes because of an lower extremity injury. He didn’t come back out after halftime.
Junior Guard Jayden Taylor put the Pack on his back, trying to will his team to victory in the 2nd half. Taylor scored 28 points, which is a new career high. He shot 9 of 15 from the field, and 5 of 10 from three.
As a result of the loss, NC State officially finished 10th in the ACC this season. For perspective, the Wolfpack were picked to finish 7th in the 2023-24 ACC Preseason Poll.
The Wolfpack will play in the opening day of the ACC Tournament against Louisville, the #15 seed.
On the whole, a very disheartening ending to the 2023-24 season.
Below is the Box Score.
Former NC State Forward Ernest Ross has committed to UTSA for his final year of eligibility.
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Ross played in 14 games this year, averaging 3.4 minutes per contest. After playing in 34 games last season, averaging 11.4 minutes per contest, Ross saw his participation dip to a career low this season, but that didn’t for a second break his infectious personality. On the sideline, you could count on Ross every single game to be the heart and soul of the Wolfpack on the bench. To watch a player who played as little as he did, care as much as he did, makes me super proud that this young man represented NC State so well.
Ross was a consensus 4-star player in the 2021 recruiting class, with 247Sports ranking him as the #60 overall player nationally. ESPN ranked him as the #5 overall player in the state of Florida.
Georgia Transfer Center Frank Anselem-Ibe (6’10″/215) was in for a visit to NC State yesterday, according to a source.
Anselm-Ibe was at Georgia the past two seasons, and was at Syracuse the two before that.
Back in 2020, Anselm-Ibe was a 4-Star prospect out of Prolific Prep in Georgia. 247Sports ranked him as the #18 player in the state of Georgia.
Anselm-Ibe hit the Portal on April 30th.
ECU Power Forward Transfer Ezra Ausar took an Official Visit to NC State a little over a week ago, and while things were looking good at first, at this point, it seems like things have reached a point of radio silence. From what I’m hearing, NC State would definitely take Ausar, but they aren’t going to wait for him either.
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I used to take off from work during the ACC tournament just to see NCSU play with the hopes of winning the thing. There were some good runs and other one and dones. However, I will not watch this team again until KK is removed. And quit sending me crap asking for more money. Also, we have lost 10 of the last 14 games.
No ice cream again? Another one bites the dust. This is really getting old. One simple thing to do in the off season is to fire KK and get a good coach from the good teams in the tournament. No up and coming guy, someone established.