It looked like NC State was going to have to foul because it was down one and the game clock and shot clock were nearly the same. But Cal State Fullerton transfer Raina Perez, who has been a huge part of NC State’s back-to-back No. 1 seeds the past two seasons, made about as clean a steal as you can make from behind Dara Mabrey just in the nick of time and converted it into a lead-changing layup on the other end with 14.8 seconds remaining.
Perez went on to rebound a missed three from Maddy Westbeld and made two free throws with one second left to push the Wolfpack lead to three. Notre Dame freshman Sonia Citron couldn’t get a three-quarters court shot off before the buzzer and the No. 1 seed Wolfpack erased the demons of three straight losses in the Sweet Sixteen with a 66-63 win over the No. 5 seed Saturday at Total Mortgage Arena in Bridgeport, Conn.
Kai Crutchfield kept NC State in the game with clutch basket after clutch basket, but it seemed like Notre Dame freshman…
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