WASHINGTON, D.C. (WNCN) — Ten days after going through off at PNC Area, the NC State and Duke males’s basketball groups meet once more, this time within the third spherical of the Atlantic Coast Convention Event.
The quarterfinal matchup between the Wolfpack (19-14 total, Sept. 11 ACC) and the Blue Devils (24-7, 15-5) tip off at 7 p.m. at Capital One Area.
Duke received the March 4 contest — the one recreation between the 2 packages this 12 months — by 15 factors, 79-64. For NC State, that loss was a part of a 4-game skid to finish the common season. However the Wolfpack have received two ACC Event video games this week, whereas Thursday would be the Blue Devils’ first recreation since shedding to North Carolina Saturday at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
The Wolfpack’s main scorer, DJ Horne, missed the opening recreation towards Louisville with a hip damage and got here off the bench within the second recreation towards Syracuse, however Casey Morsell, Jayden Taylor, Michael O’Connell and DJ Burns have stepped up at completely different instances throughout NC State’s convention event run.
Within the loss to UNC, 4 Duke gamers scored in double-figures, led by Kyle Filipowski’s 23 and Jared McCain’s 19. However of their final matchup towards NC State, the Blue Devils had been led by senior guard Jeremy Roach’s 21 factors.
Thursday evening’s recreation would be the 256th time total NC State and Duke face off, and their twenty seventh assembly within the ACC Event. The Blue Devils maintain the benefit in each, with a 152-103 report total and 17-9 report within the convention event towards the Wolfpack.