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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The NC State men's basketball team scored the final nine points of overtime to defeat third-seed Virginia, 73-65, Friday night to advance to the ACC Championship game.

The Pack is headed to the championship game for the first time since the 2007 season. NC State will face top-seed North Carolina in the title game. The game will tipoff at 8:30 p.m. on ESPN.

NC State advanced past Virginia thanks to a buzzer beating three-pointer by Michael O'Connell to tie the game at 58 at the end of regulation. After the Pack missed a three-pointer, it fouled Virginia with 5.3 seconds to play. The Cavaliers had a chance to make a free throw to seal the win, but UVA missed the front end of the one-and-one. Casey Morsell rebounded the miss and passed the ball to Michael O'Connell who dribbled up the left sideline and let loose a three-pointer right in front of the NC State bench that banked in to send the game to overtime.

In overtime, Virginia struck first, but the Pack immediately went to DJ Burns, Jr., in the post and he scored to get the Pack back within one. After a UVA miss, Burns again scored to give the Pack its first lead of the extra period, 62-61, with 3:11 to go. UVA got a tip in dunk on its next possession, but Mohamed Diarra rebounded a DJ Horne miss for the Pack and laid it in to put NC State back in front. UVA had one answer in it, springing Ryan Dunn for a dunk to give UVA a 65-64 lead with 2:02 left, but the Cavaliers would not score again.

Burns put the Pack in front for good with a three-point play to make the score 67-65 with 1:43 to go.

The Pack got a stop on UVA's next possession and on its ensuing possession Mohamed Diarra rebounded his own miss, passed back out to DJ Horne who found O'Connell under the basket to lay it in and give NC State a 69-65 lead with 45 seconds to go.

Virginia missed three-point shots on its next two possessions and Horne made all four of his free throw attempts to end the scoring and clinch the championship game berth for the Pack.

NC State finished overtime shooting 5-of-7 from the field and made all five of its free throw attempts.

Burns, Jr., led four NC State players in double figures with 19 points on 8-of-11 shooting. Ben Middlebrooks and O'Connell each chipped in 12 while Morsell finished with 11.

Diarra finished one point short of a double-double as he contributed nine points and 12 rebounds. Diarra has now grabbed an ACC Tournament record 46 rebounds in the Pack's four game in Washington, D.C.

NC State closed the game with a 40-26 advantage in points in the paint and a 20-3 advantage in bench points.

PITTSBURGH, Pa. - The 11th-seed NC State men's basketball team went on an 11-1 run in overtime on its way to defeating 14th-seed Oakland, 79-73, Saturday evening at PPG Paints Arena.

With the win, NC State advances to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2015. The Pack will face the winner of tomorrow's game between 10th-seed Colorado and 2nd-seed Marquette in Dallas on Friday.

DJ Burns, Jr., led the Pack with his second double-double of the season as he scored 24 points and pulled down 11 rebounds while also passing out four assists.

Burns is the first NC State player since 1985 to record a 20-point, 10-rebound performance in the NCAA Tournament.

The Rock Hill, S.C., native finished the game 9-of-12 from the floor and 6-of-7 from the foul line.

Like Burns, Mohamed Diarra also posted a double-double as he scored 11 points and pulled down a team-high 13 rebounds. It's Diarra's fourth double-double in the last five games.

Michael O'Connell added 12 points and Casey Morsell and DJ Horne each chipped in 11 points.

O'Connell passed out a season-high eight assists which are the most by an NC State player this season.

The Pack jumped out to a 9-2 lead and never trailed in the first half, taking a 32-29 advantage into the locker room.

In the second half, NC State pushed its advantage back up to seven early in the half, but could not create any space on the Golden Grizzlies as they stayed close with the Pack.

Trey Townsend finally gave Oakland its first lead of the game, 63-61, with a three-point play with 2:49 to go. Oakland stayed in front until O'Connell had a three-point play of his own to put the Pack in front 66-64 with 55 seconds left in regulation.

Oakland tied the game with two free throws and after both teams got a defensive stop, Morsell's half court heave just missed to send the game to overtime.

In overtime, Oakland had a 69-68 with 2:25 left when the Pack took control. Burns started the run with a put-back lay-up to put NC State in front. After a defensive stop, DJ Horne made a jumper to push NC State's advantage to three. Oakland made one free throw to get back within two, but Burns found Jayden Taylor for a three-pointer to give NC State a 75-70 lead with 1:13 to play.

The Pack got two more stops on Oakland's ensuing possessions and made four straight free throws to take a 79-70 lead with 17 seconds left. The Golden Grizzlies made a three with 14 seconds to go, but neither team scored again as NC State advanced to the Sweet 16.

NC State outscored Oakland in points in the paint, 36-24, and the Pack passed out a season-high tying 19 assists in the win.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Dawn Staley has South Carolina back in a familiar place — the Final Four — and she got there this time with an entirely new starting lineup.

Tessa Johnson scored 15 points and Kamilla Cardoso added 12 to help the undefeated Gamecocks to a 70-58 win over Oregon State on Sunday in the Albany 1 Regional Final of the women's NCAA Tournament.

“Proud because we beat the odds,” Staley said. “Odds said we shouldn’t make it back to the Final Four. Proud of our team for them believing in themselves. We created a certain level of chemistry and culture and they stuck with it.”

It’s the second consecutive year the Gamecocks have made it to the national semifinals undefeated. South Carolina hopes for a different conclusion this time. The Gamecocks lost to Caitlin Clark and Iowa in the Final Four last year.

“We’re different this year. I think we can do a lot of things. We can shoot from outside, drive,” Raven Johnson said. “We can play from the inside out. This team is just a young, feisty, fierce team that’s hungry. We’ve got a chip on our shoulder.”

The Gamecocks, who have made the Final Four in four straight years, will play either Texas or N.C. State on Friday night in Cleveland.

“Each time we get an opportunity to cut down nets is kind of special,” Staley said.

Two more wins by South Carolina would make the Gamecocks the 10th school to finish a season undefeated and the first since UConn did it in 2016.

South Carolina is also two victories away from its third national championship.

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PORTLAND, Ore. — Aziaha James made a career-high seven 3-pointers and scored 27 points, and third-seeded North Carolina State earned its first trip to the Final Four of the women's NCAA Tournament since 1998, beating top-seeded Texas 76-66 on Sunday in a game played with 3-point lines at different distances on opposite ends of the court.

River Baldwin added 16 points for N.C. State (31-6), which will face unbeaten South Carolina in the national semifinals in Cleveland on Saturday. The Gamecocks beat Oregon State in Albany, New York, earlier Sunday.

Madison Booker, one of the top freshmen in the country along with Southern California’s JuJu Watkins, finished with 17 points to lead the Longhorns (33-5), who were vying for their first Final Four since 2003.

Before the Portland 4 Region final, Texas coach Vic Schaefer and N.C. State’s Wes Moore conferred with officials about a visible difference between the 3-point lines.

The NCAA acknowledged a discrepancy but said both coaches agreed to play on. Four previous games in Portland were played without anyone saying anything publicly about the issue. The court will be corrected before Monday's Elite Eight game between USC and UConn, the NCAA said.

EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (Oct. 23, 2023) – North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has partnered with regional innovation hubs led by North Carolina State University and the University of Southern California for the massive Microelectronics Commons project to bridge and accelerate the lab-to-fab transition.

Under the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act of 2022, the Department of Defense has awarded $238 million to establish eight hubs involving more than 360 institutions nationwide to promote economic growth as they develop the physical, digital and human infrastructure to support success in microelectronics research.

“As a land-grant university, North Carolina A&T is charged with creating better opportunities for our students and our communities,” Daniel Limbrick, Ph.D., associate professor of electrical engineering in the College of Engineering at A&T. “We are also the nation’s largest producer of Black engineers, so being a part of ‘The Commons’ helps us create more defined pipelines of talent into fields like microelectronic/semiconductor engineering, a necessary component of the CHIPS Act strategy. This partnership with DoD and USC demonstrates A&T’s continued commitment to innovative research, national partnerships and critical workforce development.”

N.C. State has teamed with A&T, Wolfspeed and five other industry partners for the Commercial Leap Ahead for Wide Bandgap Semiconductors or CLAWS regional hub.

CLAWS focuses on wide bandgap semiconductors which offer higher voltage and temperature capacity than traditional silicon chips. They are used in power electronics, but also in RF and wireless devices for communications and radars, as well as photonic devices for sensing, communications, artificial intelligence, and future quantum technology applications.

The hub will also explore next-generation ultra-wide bandgap materials with even greater voltage and temperature capabilities, including diamond and gallium oxide electronics.

The USC-led hub, California Defense Ready Electronics and Microdevices Superhub, or CA DREAMS, includes researchers at Information Sciences Institute and the USC Viterbi Ming Hsieh Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering and A&T. Other partner institutions within higher education ?include Caltech, Morgan State University, Pasadena City College, University of California, Irvine, UCLA, University of California, Riverside, University of California, San Diego and University of California, Santa Barbara.

Industry partners included in CA DREAMS include are The Boeing Co., HRL Laboratories, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, PDF Solutions, Raytheon and Teledyne Scientific Co.

This coalition will quickly translate the sophisticated materials and devices developed in academic labs to fabrication. Its work will also focus on 5G/6G technologies.

“President Biden’s CHIPS Act will supercharge America’s ability to prototype, manufacture and produce microelectronics scale,” said Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks. “CHIPS and Science made clear to America — and the world — that the U.S. government is committed to ensuring that our industrial and scientific powerhouses can deliver what we need to secure our future in this era of strategic competition.”

Contributor: Tiniya Martin, College of Engineering communications intern

Two in the books, and one more to go. North Carolina college hoops teams have jumped out to a hot start in the 2024 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.

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In a departure from historical norms, North Carolina saw just three of its college hoops teams make the NCAA tourney in 2024. The University of North Carolina Tar Heels, Duke Blue Devils and N.C. State Wolfpack are those dancing March squads.

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In the West Region, No. 1 North Carolina spanked No. 16 Wagner, 90-62. Meanwhile, the ACC champion and No. 11-seeded N.C. State Wolfpack took down a Texas Tech club many had advancing far in the tournament, 80-67.

UNC now preps for Tom Izzo's impressive Michigan State squad, whereas the Wolfpack seek a Sweet 16 bid by knocking off No. 14 Oakland, who stunned Kentucky, in the South Region.

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