NC State's Cinderella Run In 2024 Postseason, NCAA Tournament Came To Conclusion Saturday With 63-50 Loss To Purdue At Final Four In Phoenix Arizona
NC State ‘s 2023-2024 season would have already been turning their attention to the 2024-2025 season had it not won four games in four days at the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament in Washington DC and punched their ticket to the NCAA Tournament that included a 74-69 win over tobacco road rival Duke on Thursday March 14, 2024. A 73-65 win over Virginia on Friday March 15, 2024 in overtime an 84-76 win over another tobacco road rival in North Carolina.
From there NC State who was the 11th seed in the NCAA Tournament went on to beat Texas Tech who was the 6th seed in the South Region with 80 -67 win on Thursday March 21, 2024 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Oakland who was the 14 seed in the South Region in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 79-73 in overtime on Saturday March 23, 2024 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Marquette who was the 2 seed in the South Region 67-58 on Friday March 29, 2024 in Dallas Texas before beating their tobacco road rival Duke in postseason yet again this time in the NCAA Tournament 76-64 on Sunday March 31, 2024 in Dallas Texas.
NC State’s Cinderella run in 2024 postseason came to conclusion Saturday with 63-50 loss to Purdue at Final Four in Phoenix Arizona.
As NC State’s Cinderella run in 2024 postseason , NCAA Tournament came to conclusion Saturday at Final Four in Phoenix Arizona with 63-50 loss to Purdue as a team NC State shot 36.8 % on field goals 26.3 % on 3 pointers. Mohamed Diarra was 1-4 on field goals, 0-2 on 3 pointers to go along with 5 rebounds, 2 points. DJ Burns was 4-10 on field goals to go along 1 rebound, 4 assists. Michael O’Connell was 1-1 on field goals to go along with 1 rebound, 1 assists, 3 points. DJ Horne was 8-21 on field goals, 2-8 on 3 pointers to go along with 6 rebounds, 1 assists, 20 points . Ben Middlebrooks was 1-2 on field goals to go along 7 rebounds , 3 assists , 2 points. Casey Morsell was 0-5 on field goals , 0-1 on 3 pointers to go along 5 rebounds , 1 assists, 0 points Breon Pass was 2-4 on field goals, 0-2 on 3 pointers to go along with 1 rebound, 4 points . Jayden Taylor was 4-10 on field goals , 2-5 on 3 pointers to go along 2 rebounds , 11 points.
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Following NC State’s Cinderella run in 2024 postseason, NCAA Tournament coming to conclusion Saturday with 63-50 loss to Purdue at Final Four in Phoenix Arizona DJ Horne who was 8-21 on field goals, 2-8 on 3 pointers to go along with 6 rebounds, 1 assists, 20 points had this to say!
Every win we’ve gotten, it felt like a championship,
Following NC State’s Cinderella run in 2024 postseason, NCAA Tournament coming to conclusion Saturday with 63-50 loss to Purdue at Final Four in Phoenix Arizona NC State Head Coach Kevin Keatts had this to say!
I don’t know that I could be prouder of a group of men that I’ve coached in my life,”
Adversity, you name it. Situations, you name it. Hard times, you name it. They found a way to win the ACC, found a way to make it to the Final Four. “These guys always believed. They trusted. Even when we wasn’t having success, they believed in me and they believed in the staff. They stuck together. We’re going to leave out of here because Purdue won the game, but we’ll walk out of here with our heads up, as champions.”
According to Chip Alexander News & Observer article https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/nc-state/article287447075.html