Pack Hosts Notre Dame Tuesday Night at PNC Arena

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The NC State men’s basketball team (15-5, 5-4 ACC) returns home after two road games last week to host Notre Dame (9-11, 1-8 ACC) Tuesday evening at PNC Arena.

Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m., and the game will be televised on the ACC Network. NC State fans can also listen to Gary Hahn and Tony Haynes call the action on the Wolfpack Sports Network.

 

Pack Tracks

– NC State dropped its first game of the 2023 calendar year as the Pack fell at North Carolina, 80-69, on Saturday evening. DJ Burns and Jarkel Joiner led the Pack with 18 points. Casey Morsell and Terquavion Smith each added 12 as the quartet combined to score 60 of NC State’s 69 points.

– With 9:45 remaining in the game, sophomore guard Terquavion Smith was fouled on a lay-up attempt and did not return to the game with elbow and neck injuries. He was taken to UNC Medical Center and all x-rays were negative. His playing status is day-to-day. Smith’s 12–point performance snapped a five-game streak of scoring 20 or more points. Despite having his day cut short, Smith continues to lead the ACC in scoring with an average of 18.7 points per game. He has been named to the Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 Watch List, the Oscar Robertson Trophy Midseason Watch List and was recently named a Midseason Third-Team All-American by The Sporting News.

– Graduate forward D.J. Burns tied his season-high with 18 points against the Tar Heels. It’s the third time in the last eight games that Burns has scored 18 points. In the first 10 games of the season, Burns averaged 7.4 points, 3.8 rebounds, 0.9 assists and 0.4 blocks while playing 16.6 minutes per game. After Dusan Mahorcic was injured in the Coppin State game on Dec. 6, Burns has seen his role increase. Over the last 10 games since Mahorcic went out, Burns is averaging 13.2 points per game, 5.5 rebounds (including 2.3 offensive rebounds) per game, 2.0 assists and 1.3 blocks while playing 25.8 minutes per game. Burns is shooting 58 percent from the field (58-of-100) over the last 10 games.

 

Tuesday Storylines

– A win on Tuesday would be the Pack’s fourth consecutive ACC home win this season. The last time NC State won four consecutive ACC games in the same season was the 2013-14 season when the Pack won four…