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hosted a big upset today 11 seed duaine shock six- seated BYU 71-67 here in Pittsburgh today it was number three kraton against 14 seed akan and the Blue Jays prevailed so form held there 77-60 was the final score in that one also number two seed Arizona an easy win today over Long Beach State 85 to 65 North Carolina of course the number one number one seed tar Hills playing in Charlotte no problems beating 16 seed Wagner 90-62 so Carolina moves on to the second round also 14 seed more head State against number one Illinois or uh number three Illinois I'm sorry the Alli behind early in the game but they fought back and made it look easy winning 85 to 69 now the second game of the day here in Pittsburgh South Carolina losing to Oregon 8773 so that's another 11 seed beating a six so we've already had two of those today where the 11 beat the six and guess what NC State's an 11 and Texas Tech a six as well see if the pack can make a three today with those seating matchups number 10 Nevada going up against seven seed Dayton and the Flyers hang on to win 63-60 that one in the West Regional also another final lowc scoring game Texas upends Colorado State 5644 of course Colorado State played that first score game and beat Virginia on Tuesday night also coming up tonight 9:20 will be the start time so they're going to be getting underway here in about 20 minutes that's two seed Tennessee against uh 15 Seed St Peters and that will be in the Midwest region and that's a look at our NCAA tournament scoreboard we're live from Pittsburgh getting you up to dat on the game in progress 9113 to play and Oakland still up by five it's 5752 Oakland trying to shock the college basketball World here tonight at PPG Paints Arena Gary hans's going to catch up with willpack head coach Kevin Keats on the other side of this you're listening to willpack basketball from learfield for the fourth year in a row North Carolina Farm Bureau Insurance was ranked the best insurance company in the ation by 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heaster for the heaster Automotive Group and you know I'm pulling for the pack this year and I hope we win a ton of games but I know how you can win if you're in the market for a vehicle or need your vehicle service we have four locations around the triangle in Sanford Lillington and F wave Arena so get off your keer and come to heaster and go hack together that's how we stay in the game ready to play as one great team UNC health is keeping you well by bringing renewed Focus approach and dedicated Services Close to You exceptional care is what you and your family deserve together let's put points on the board for life well played team up with UNC health official healthcare provider of NC State athletics [Music] it's round one of the NCAA south regional and the matchup is six- seated Texas Tech and 11 seated NC State welcome back to PPG Paints arena in Pittsburgh where it's time to check in with the head coach of the wolf pack Kevin Keats Kevin first of all congratulations on an incredible five-game run of the ACC title just for the record how many people have come up to you and told you that they knew that was going to happen if they did they were lying um the only ones who honestly believe that this could happen and I'm not being funny and I mean that it was the the players in the locker room and the coaches and we completely took it one game at a time um I want to take a moment to um you know appreciation message about my coaching staff and their preparation um and how they had these guys prepared through scouting I also want to take a moment to to you know compliment our players um they did all the heavy lifting they completely locked in they were focused and we literally took it one game at a time you know when you sit back and look at you know um five games in five days um how we did it who we played you know championship game you know I thought this obviously this team was locked in and you know completely got stronger every game and you could tell by the second half that we were the stronger team after playing three or four or five days in a row so what a proud thing um you know we've taken a lot of flack you know over the years not just my era but a lot of Errors about not winning a championship in over 37 years and you know this is for everybody whose fault and the players who came before us and everything else I've said it below before this is not you know the 23 24 championship this is everybody's championship this is NC States Championship how quickly did your mindset move from winning the ACC title to to laying the foundation for another run uh in another tournament starting here in Pittsburgh well it it's it had to switch quick um you know we got back and um you think about it you know we didn't get back you know this you were flying with us we didn't get back to the we hours of the morning and you know just completely had to figure everything out and then the next day you know you got selection Sunday and then the next day you're pretty much getting ready to travel because you got to play and everything else so it's a we didn't get to enjoy it as much but that's okay because um we get another prize that's in front of us and obviously being able to to make the NCAA tournament and have a chance to you know compete and win a National Championship so we got two stages of that when you have a uh tremendous Mountaintop experience like the woolpack had last week it's kind of hard to come down from but what what have you done to get the players back into uh the regular mindset well I mean we've we' praised him I mean this is this may not ever happen again it may not H ever happen again and for a program who hadn't won a championship in so long you know for this particular group you know the adversity that we had so we praised them and then but we said hey you got another opportunity there's another opportunity in front of you and you know we we did the unthinkable going into the ACC tournament so why not us you had some uh physical issues to deal with by the end of the ACC Championship you had Jaden Taylor's ankle Casey Morel with some kind of either groin or upper leg bustled injury you play without Dennis Parker all week can you update us on uh on all of that and who's available and who's not well that's uh it's a funny thing because I didn't know who was available during every game and and to our guys credit they gave me everything that they had during those moments during those games um we substituting at the end against the in the championship game um everybody's a goal right now not telling you that we're 100% but everybody's a go um except for Dennis how did uh G DJ horn come out of the ACC tournament physically because that was one of the uh stories that kind of went under the radar screen well I just I mean he's he's going to play I couldn't tell you that that he's 100% and all that other stuff but he will play tonight you talk about mental toughness uh and fighting through injuries and and all of that uh you got it last week you're probably going to have to do it again this team to me appears to be uh of all the teams in the NCAA tournament maybe the most mentally and physically toughest well we show one of them and uh it's because you know obviously man these guys have buil um kind of build of armor they've taken a lot of grief um you know unfairly and they've kind of it's actually helped us bond together and understand how important it is to have your brothers besides you and you know basketball is a complete team sport it's not an individual sport and you know when our guys you know hear things about their brothers or their family they just don't like it and so it's kind of you know it's kind of bonded us and put us us against the world mentality that's a head coach of the Wolfpack Kevin Keats later coach will be back we'll focus on Texas Tech now back to Courtside Tony hes all right Gary thanks a lot and you asked coach Keat the question about all the physical ailments that potentially could uh hurt the pack here in this game and that overall the injury report sounded pretty pretty good Dennis Parker Jr still coming back from illis they don't expect him to be available at all this weekend but uh beyond that uh those guys who uh made it happen last week and that ACC tournament win well it sounds like they're all available for this game against Texas Tech here tonight you just heard the UNCC Health injury report it is brought to you by UNCC Health the official healthc care provider of NC State athletics boy what an entertaining game we're watching here between Kentucky and Oakland Oakland is hanging in there and trying to hang on but still a long way to go just above 5 minutes to play now and Oakland is clinging to a 6462 lead over Kentucky I think Kentucky is led by a point once here in the second half otherwise Oakland has continued to have the upper hand but as we speak right now Kentucky had just tied the game up on a short jumper but that basket will not count because because of an illegal screen so 502 to play and it's Oakland 64 Kentucky 62 it's CC state of Texas Tech of course in the final of four games today here in Pittsburgh and we'll talk more about that on the other side of this break you're listening to wol pack basketball from learfield from the mountains to the coast 2.5 million North Carolinians are members of an Electric Cooperative as a co-op member you're part of exciting efforts to power a brighter future in Wolfpack Nation from Innovative energy projects that make the grid more resilient and sustainable to initiatives that strengthen local communities and services that make managing your energy use easier electric cooperatives are here for you learn more at NC electric cooperatives tocom [Music] Brier and we're back with the action Coke Zero sugar might be the best Coke ever that's right Jim with an irresistible taste and zero sugar Coke Zero sugar is a must try for any sports so make sure you 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rebounds in that one and NC State won decisively but a lot of years have passed since these two teams squared off in a basketball court but that's all about to change here tonight in the NCAA tournament here in Pittsburgh and we have an elite shooting performance going on in front of us Jack Gokey for Oakland now has 10 threes in this game against Kentucky becomes the fifth player all time to have 10 threes in an NCAA Tournament game and quite frankly I was shocked to hear that there have actually been five I mean that's a phenomenal performance to have 10 threes in a game if you're an individual right now Oakland's lead is 6765 with 355 to play and Kentucky just fouled so it looks like Oakland's going to go to the foul line it's a two-point lead now for Oakland trying to pull the upset and uh understanding Big Blue Nation if Kentucky loses this game to Oakland tonight uh they don't want to go back to Lexington anytime soon would not be a fun place to be all right let's talk about Texas Tech and Tech is the six seed in the south region after posting a third place finish in the Big 12 this season the Red Raiders were one of 18s from that League to land a spot in the NCAA tournament so the level of competition faced by first year coach grant grant McCaslin and his team should be helpful here in the big dance yeah it's like anything you want to get tested so that you know how you got to improve and you want to figure out how do you um win games in different ways because I think that's what championship basketball is about how do you win in close games how do you win against teams that play Fast how do you win against teams that play physical and the the formula for winning in the postseason is finding a way and I know this team is having going through the best league in the country you you have to figure out like how gritty and tough you have to be on every possession and play it that way and our team's bought into it there's a fight to our team and I know um we're excited about putting it in the tournament well healthwise there are some question marks for Texas Tech athletic Ford Daren Williams missed a loss to Houston in the Big 12 tournament with a sprained ankle while the Raiders have been without 7ot Center Warren Washington for nine games due to a foot injury of course we're all all eager to see just how NC State bounces back after playing five games in five days last week coach McCaslin expects the wolf pack to keep its Mojo going after winning the ACC title uh I know they've got great guard play and they'll be ready I mean you don't win five games and not be ready to go and they've got Championship uh expectations now that they've won it so we'll uh we'll get we'll get a great team that's on a great run and it'll be a difficult U game to prepare for but we'll be ready well without the seven-footer Washington Texas Tech is a very small team with no starter standing taller than 67 but in a league that features numerous big guys with skill maaslin thinks he and his staff can come up with an effective game plan to counter NC State Center DJ Burns yeah well you know having the opportunity to um to face the teams in our league that have effective size I think you got to have a game plan for a lot of different ways to defend it and you know as well as I do anytime you're matched with somebody that's got that amount of Effectiveness it's not one guy that defends it it's your whole team so we'll have a game plan for everybody to be involved and got to do our best to uh make it as difficult as possible and these two teams do have a common opponent in BYU NC State lost a close game to B U very early in the season Texas tag actually beat the Cougars twice including last week in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 tournament in that game BYU at one of the best three-point team uh three-point shooting teams in the country they couldn't throw it in the ocean especially in the first half they were getting a lot of wide open threes they just couldn't knock them down Tex Texas Tech was able to take advantage of that and move on before falling to Houston and the Big 12 semifinals back here in Pittsburgh this upset bid by Oakland is getting closer to reality was still a long way to go 346 to play Oakland 69 Kentucky 65 and John calip Perry's Wildcats just turned the basketball over we'll keep you updated as we go along while also continuing our pregame coverage for NC State and Texas Tech you're listening to W Pack basketball from learfield for Generations hard work working people have relied on Ford F-series trucks to help grow businesses communities families a legacy of capability and technology that has made Ford fseries America's bestselling trucks 47 years straight this is the next generation of built Ford tough based on 1977 to 2023 calendar year total sales for the fourth year in a row North Carolina Farm Bureau Insurance was ranked the best insurance company in the nation by Auto Body Pros with quick payments on 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in the market for a vehicle or need your vehicle service we have four locations around the triangle in Sanford lington and F wave Arena so get off your keer and come to heaster and Go [Music] Pack we're back in Pittsburgh drama and folding in front of our very eyes Oakland trying to upset Kentucky less than 2 minutes to play now Kentucky just missed a shot got the offensive rebound but Oakland is leading 73-68 and just as I say that Kentucky drains another three the Wildcats have made a bunch of Threes here in the second half as well so it's back to a two-point game with 137 to play and what a shocker that would be well sometime next season probably before the first game a brand new ACC Championship Banner will be lifted to the ra of TNC arena for the first time in that building's history sure it's nice to win for the pole position but the type of rags to Rich story NC NC State produced last week will be discussed at kitchen tables and talk shows for years to come for their part players like wol pack guard DJ horn always believed anything was and is possible uh I I feel like you know coming into this tournament we definitely have a lot of confidence um all along we knew we were a good team uh we just you know had some ups and downs throughout the season so uh to be able to pull it all together for uh you know a great conference tning run and then ultimately winning it uh definitely coming into this know lot of top prior to last week wack Center DJ Burns had already established himself as one of the most intriguing players in all of college basketball but after scoring 20 points and dishing out seven assists in the championship win over North Carolina his Fame shot to a whole new level it's been kind of crazy you know the exposure that you get playing at this level is really unmatched and I didn't really realize it until after that game how big it could possibly get I was truly been BL now the question is can the pack do it all again reaching a high level of performance is a as a team is always achievable but can it be sustained guard Casey morcel says the approach must remain the same our approach headed into the postseason was that it's a new season you know one of the things we always talked about in our meetings before the before the tournament started is that you know it's Z and zero everybody's record is z and zero and we took that approach as if you know it's a fresh start and that was um the foundation for us to get momentum of course there was no momentum heading into the ACC tournament a four-game losing streak to close the regular season team seem to suggest that this team might be ready to pack its bags and look to the future but as criticism came in waves from the outside DJ burn says the entire team bonded together I'd say we used it as motivation um going into you know the disrespect that we were getting our coach and us as players you know every night just when we lost those games just complete disrespect and we took it personally and I think that that's kind of what the driving force was some of those teams that we played against they had disrespected us as well and we were just tired of it honestly well this NC State team has talent but individual Talent can only take your so far in a team sport DJ horn describes it this way um I would just say you know I feel like we're really really connected right now and um I think everybody's on the same page or what you know is expected of us or expected of you know each and every one of us so uh um I wish you just say the [Music] connectedness and nothing brings the team together more than beating traditional powerhouses like Duke in North Carolina within a 3-day period the competition that the wolf pack paced only not only last week but during the regular season figures to serve Casey morsel and the pack well here tonight uh yeah for sure um I think you know one of the great things about the tournament is that we faced um all different types of adversity whether it be injuries um just different schemes that we played against um so we're definitely going to use um those lessons that we that we learned from the tournament um heading into this March M as well and like DJ horn and DJ burns more cell knows that the next loss would end his college basketball career and for that reason he's highly motivated to do what it takes to keep on play you work so hard all summer I'm sure every team does but uh you know this group like I said has faced a lot of adversity and you know our record from the regular season shows that and um you know the fact that you know things are starting to click and things starting to get going um it's a great story that um that we all value so we're definitely going to do our best to uh make it a fairy T well this building in Pittsburgh is about to erupt if this score stays the same because Oakland right now is up on Kentucky 7874 with 18 seconds to play and Oakland is going to the foul line as as well so Kentucky has 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inside out you know you know they remind me um defensively style-wise a Clemson where you got to you know drive and kick and you can't they don't give you paint touches they'll do a good job with that but that's a good basketball team they got bigs they guys Shooters they got guys who can make plays and um they you don't accidentally win four out of five and the only one that they lost was towards the end against a heck of a Houston team yeah no doubt about that U I was looking at the stats and then watching some tape Texas Tech takes a lot of Threes 41% of their shots come from three-point range they got three players who shoot 40% are better from the arc this is not a team that lives and dies by the three-point Ball but uh how important is it to guard that three-point line tonight well you got to guard it and you know when you see 41% it's scary um because they do shoot it for basically four different positions and two of those guys are lights out you know shooting a heck of percentage and so you know one of those things we've got to do a good job defending the three-point line we have to do a good job pressing the basketball we got to get deflections we've got to be real really really solid defensively and try to play uh out in front of their defense how important is that well uh getting transition basket is going to be huge for us but we got to do a good job blocking out because they sent three guys to the glass so they're a very good rebounding team and they'll get offensive offensive plays and everything else and so we just got to we just got to keep on rolling and you know our guys got to be focused and finish possession so we can get out and get some baskets and transition it appears that uh 6-2 sophomore guard pop Isaac's has to shoot well he he's got to play well and score well for Texas Tech to win how how do you see that Pop's playing well and he's one of those guys who's got a real shortterm memory you know he can miss four or five shots and then come down and take a 30 foot and knock it down and think that he's having a great game so he got a little wiggle with his game he's a really good guard and we got to do a good job he is one of the major keys to their team it appears that uh points in the paint are sometimes hard for Texas Tech to come by other than Joe tcan who's a 6- foot really quick guard who gets into the paint is Texas Tech probably not going to hurt the woolpack as much driving the basketball well I they get into pain and and they're probably going to get their seven footer back tonight I would be surprised if he didn't play um and that changes them and you know that's what's made preparation a little difficult because we've had to prepare for and without him but you know Joe does a good job he gets into pain he drives he knows how to score the basketball um they've played against some really good teams lately that their numbers look like they don't score as much inside but they're really good they can play inside out well let me ask you this if 7 foot Warren Washington uh it can't go do you see a big advantage in getting the ball inside of DJ Burns in this game well we're going to get the ball inside of DJ Burns no matter who plays um just so you know that but um it it'll help us more if they're a little bit smaller in there where else do you think the wolf pack might be able to hurt Texas Tech tonight well I just think we have to do a good job of um you know utilizing driving the ball getting to the free throw line playing inside out getting in transition that's tenc State basketball when we're playing that way we're really good tough mean tough team to to beat uh ball and player moving when that ball moves and it doesn't stick you know you think back to some of those games in the ACC tournament man we just we just found the right guy and we made the right play over and over and you know hopefully we can do the same thing tonight what do you feel best about going into this game well I mean you got to feel good about the way you're guys are playing um you know confidence is um at a high level you don't win you don't accidentally win five games when you go through you know Louisville Syracuse Duke Virginia and Carolina in the championship game you so you got you got to love our guys confidence and our Swagger um I know you because you've been asking me questions for seven years what are you concerned about concerned that we did play a lot of games last week um that's my concern and I was concerned doing that stretch and I'm a little concerned about it now is the late start tonight okay with you I'm I'm completely happy with the late start I wanted a Friday game so if you're going to give me a Thursday give me the last one you can give me Kevin we're out of time thanks for the visit and all the best tonight against Texas Tech here in the NCAA tournament thanks go pack that's a head coach of the woolpack Kevin Keats and that's the Coca-Cola preview this is NC State 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between Texas Tech and NC State the game just uh concluding uh prior to this one Oakland has upset Kentucky a three seed 80-76 Oakland knocked in 15 three-point shots to win this game hung on at the End by taking care of the basketball and making just enough free throws to uh do the job so Oakland will be the team that uh NC State would face if it beats Texas Tech tonight NC State would advance to Saturday second round of the NCAA south regional at Pittsburgh toh face Oakland of Michigan the 14th seed tip off time of course would be set by the NCAA and would be announced later and Ben C state is able to be Texas Tech we invite you to uh obviously check out gac.com well now let's get into our Carolina Ford keys of the game for this one do we have time uh I think we've got plenty of time to talk about this and probably a lot more that's right we're just glad that the Kentucky Oakland game didn't go into overtime or we'd have the longest pregame show in the history of Atlantic Coast Conference broadcasting I will say this you know Kentucky wherever the Kentucky Wildcats travel and I've experienced this over the years in the NCAA tournament no nobody travels like Kentucky fans but I'm going tell you what that is an unhappy group of fans wearing the blue sitting and they were taking up I don't know about half the arena so I don't know how many fans are going to be left with in this game simply because I think the Kentucky fans are going to be hitting the streets in the aftermath of that massive upset well you mentioned the Kentucky fans taking up a lot of seats uh of course they made a big Roar when Kentucky would hit a basket but then I think about everybody else in the arena was pulling for Oakland and so when the Oakland team would hit a basket it was just about as loud kind of interesting uh the crowd if they don't really have a dog in the fight they'll always go to the uh to the underdog that's right and that's just the way it is but uh Oakland was 15 of 31 from the three-point line in that game and Jack goke was incredible there were only three players that scored in double figures for Oakland but he had 32 points in the game he was 10 of 20 shooting every one of his shots was from Beyond the three-point Arc except for two out of three uh made free throws he had two rebounds with 32 points uh Antonio Reeves for Kentucky had 27 only two other players scored in double figures for Oakland uh DQ Cole a forward uh 12 points and eight rebounds Trey Townson 17 points and 12 rebounds uh we now are told that we're going to have a tip time of 1012 and you thought it was going to be 9:40 yeah well there you go we got a lot to talk about and uh we're going we take calls we're going to do yeah let's our number 1 800 go pack no uh we're we're going to keep on going here but just to uh uh give you a a little bit of a a final wrap on Oakland and Kentucky Kentucky had four players in double figure scoring Reeves with 27 Justin Edwards with 10 Trey Mitchell with a double double 14 points 13 rebounds Rob Dillingham had 10 points but only two of nine shooting to go along with six rebounds and three assists so Oakland A team that uh defends pretty well they play both man and man in in zone against Kentucky and for the most part we're able to keep them out of the lane and from what I was reading about Oakland and then uh uh trying toh do some homework before uh we came to Pittsburgh they are well known for their dribble Drive defense and they defended and and Kentucky only scored uh 76 points in this game now Kentucky came in as one of the highest scoring teams in all of college basketball they were averaging 89 points a game but they are held to 76 in this one so this Oakland team is for Real Tony there's no doubt about it and I want to give you credit because yesterday I was being interviewed by one of the writers who's actually doing a story on you as uh there are a lot of Stories being turned out uh about you and rightfully so welld deserved and one of the things I talked about with him I said you know uh Gary is always overly prepared and I think I prepare but I always feel that I have underprepared just compared to you and what I mean by that that you already started doing score sheets for Oakland on Saturday now nobody else would have started doing it Oakland score sheet they would have just assumed that Kentucky was going to Bree pass Oakland and you wouldn't have to do the Oakland score sheet but because of your legendary preparation you're ready for Oakland now in case CCC State wins tonight well you never know where you're going to be in in a metro area where there's a print shop around and if you can't get to a Sho or you got to go 2 miles and walk 2 miles to it you don't want to have to do that so I did all that at home it's been cold here yeah and I did all that at home before uh I came here just in case because uh you go you know 14s have beaten threes before and it happened again tonight with uh Kentucky being upset by Oakland uh University of Michigan 80-76 Oakland won this game shooting 41% from the field but 48% from long range R 15 out of 31 they made 13 out of 23 free throws so they left a lot of points at the free throw line 56% there Kentucky was held at 42% shooting 26 to 61 uh they didn't shoot all that badly from three-point range a little below average 9 out of 28 and they were 15 out of 20 from the foul line and Oakland you know Kentucky we we saw their size Tony Kentucky has three bigs that are are absolutely huge they're skyscrapers but Oakland outrebounded Kentucky 40-39 and won the offensive glass 14- 11 now some of those were long rebounds off of Miss Theses because Oakland hoisted up 31 three-point shots but still that's uh that's pretty impressive impressive to me that Oakland played a lot of Zone in this game but for the most part they kept Kentucky off the offensive class you know kuy's a good offensive rebounding team they had a size advantage in in this matchup and normally if you play a lot of Zone it's it's a little bit harder to keep keep a team like Kentucky off the offensive class but Kentucky did not Crush Oakland on the offensive board so when you're playing Zone and you're still still able to get blockouts like that uh pretty impressive game Planning by Oakland and then you know you have one guy Jack go out and make 10 threes that uh ties an NCAA tournament record with four other players when I when I saw the four other players players had made as many as 10 threes in NCAA tournament uh games I was shocked that there were actually that many because you just never you don't even see that during the regular season know when a guy goes out and make 10 threes every now and then but very rarely yeah I mean uh there are teams that make 15 threes during a game and sometimes you know you you get to 10 most of the time if you can get to 10 threes you got a pretty good chance to win Well Jack GOI did that he did that on his own 10 out of 20 and every one of us shots was from long range now he forced up some bad ones but uh he uh he hit a lot of them he hit 10 out of them uh 10 of them and he made seven in the first half yeah he had 21 points in the uh in the first half you're absolutely right another impressive thing uh Oakland only turned the ball over against Kentucky seven times they had five steals Kentucky turned it over 11 times and had only two steals so points off turnovers plus seven for Oakland um and bench points was another head scratcher ky's got all this five-star Talent there are guys on the Kentucky bench that could probably start for a lot of other teams but Oakland's bench outscores kuy's 40 to 21 amazing absolutely amazing so if NC stay can win tonight they would take on Oakland on Saturday afternoon well might be Saturday night might be Saturday afternoon NCAA will set the tip time that'll be announced later but first things first the pack has to get past the Texas Tech Red Raiders so let's get into our Carolina forward keys to the game boldness strength uh spirit of Adventure what are we talking about the Ford Bronco and bronos Sport that's what because that's what Legends are made of see your Carolina Ford dealer proud sponsor of NC State athletics Tony I think the first thing uh you got to do we talked about the three-point shooting that Oakland uh used against Kentucky tonight well this red ring team averages nine made threes a game 41% of their shots come from Beyond The Arc they've got three players shooting 40% or more from The Arc their leading scorer who's taken the most threes shoots 30% pop isacs but he's got uh more three-point field goals than anybody else on the team so to me the number one goal in this game is make the Red Raiders take very tough three-point shots and really do a good job guarding that three-point line you know Joe Tucson who the other guard not a big guy 6 feet 190 lbs but a Savvy guy he's a senior he had stops at West Virginia and Iowa he does a great job of getting the ball in the paint and at that point they start looking to spray the ball out to their Shooters particularly to pop Isaac so you got to be with him on the catch now he will take a shot a lot of contested threes and when he's rolling he'll make some of them you just got to hold your breath he's not shooting at a big rim here tonight but they do a good job getting threes off of two things first penetration and then collapsing getting uh the defense to collapse and help and then kicking out but they also do a tremendous job on the offensive class although they're not a huge team even without Warren Washington the seven-footer uh they're very aggressive going to the offensive glass and when they get offensive rebounds a lot of times instead of trying to go right back and follow at The Rim they're looking to spray the ball back out before you can reset your defense so they get some threes off of offensive rebound so I think tonight for NC State uh doing a good job blocking out because these guys will send three to the offensive boards now the The Flip Flip Side of that is if you do get the rebound there going to be some run out opportunities with them sending extra guys to the glass but I think defensive rebounding tonight is going to be uh a very big stat for NC State I thought the pack uh it kind of went under the radar last week in that amazing run to the ACC Championship but I thought the rebounded great you know I don't know what the overall numbers were but I know mod Di has set a league record with 60 total rebounds in in the five games and uh Dr did a lot of the dirty work but as a team I think NC State did a nice job on the boards a couple of those games the W pack W Second Chance points and I think that's going to be big tonight now I'm looking out here on the floor for uh Texas Tech I see Daren Williams he's warming up he said that he would play and he sprained his ankle last week against BYU he looks pretty good uh the big guy uh Warren Washington uh he was out here earlier as well so it remains to be seen if he's going to play because uh he's missed uh nine consecutive games and again he's essentially their only big he's a seven-footer from there it's a drop off and when he wasn't playing for nine games you had Robert Jennings at 67 essentially playing the five so they're a vastly undersized Team without Washington but uh hey don't sleep on them because they like going after offensive rebounds and sometimes offensive rebounding is not size it's about e it's about effort it's about angles it's about quickness to the ball and they are a quick team and that's one of the reasons they get to some offensive rebounds and I think defensive uh rebounding to me tonight might be the number one key for MC State yeah Pack's got to hold him in one shot no doubt about that and uh I think they've got a limit pop ISAC Isaac is a 6-2 sophomore he's their leading score at almost 16 a game a very confident player and he could miss five shots in a row and he wouldn't even remember him I mean that's that's how confident this guy is he was 13 M Big 12 um he's just a guy that does a lot of things he's their number two distributor he's the number two steals Guy and if he doesn't play well Texas Tech struggles so as far as I'm concerned I don't know how NC State's going to do it but they're going to have to find a way to to limit pop is yeah he takes a lot of shots and he takes tough shots and I think that coach McCaslin feels like well we need him to score so he's one of the guys that's got the bright green light shining all the time even when he's guarded closely because he's shown us he can make a lot of challenge shots but he's also a little bit like DJ horn you know while he's a great three-point shooter he's also got a terrific mid-range game he scores on those little floaters like DJ horn he's explosive off the bounce and yeah NC State's going to have to be do a good job on him tonight at at at least be there on the catch he's going to make some tough shots he did that against BYU last week you just got to get used to that but you got to keep him in the neighborhood if he goes out and he makes two or three threes then well that okay that's that's all right but he's also one of those guys is capable of going out and hit six seven or eight in a game and then you're in trouble another keys to the to the game I think for NC State is to uh out tough them and match their physicality match their toughness because uh that's the uh the bottom line issue for this program for Coach Grant McCaslin he wants his team to out T everybody they play and so they're going to come out with some Swagger they're going to come out with some uh physical toughness and NC State can't be knocked back about that they're they're going to have to match it yeah and I think NC State also so you got to be very strong with the ball you know the wolf pack has been Elite this year when it comes to taking care of the basketball in fact Inc State this season has the fewest turnovers of any NC State team in school history and they average less than 10 turnovers per game and this is a team and Coach Keats characterized them very well he's talking about Clemson they do a good job of sitting in their gaps and so when you put the ball down on the floor and you're going to get in the paint you're going to encounter a crowd they're going to be digging in they're going to be looking to knock the ball away and create some turnovers and some open floor opportunities you got to be strong with the ball you also when you get in the paint you got to think about going up off of two feet if you start drifting you go in off of one foot they're pretty good at sliding over and cutting you off at the pass drawing charges although it's much harder to get a charge call in this day and age with the rules changes in college basketball actually I kind of like that but you got to be leery of that because you you put the ball down against these guys you're going to encounter a crowd so two foot jump stop look opposite for a three-point shooter you make some good looks fortunately NC State in the ACC has played a few teams like that on a regular basis namely Clemson and Virginia so I think the pack is really accustomed to playing that style of a defense and we go back to scouting reports what we were talking about earlier in the pregame show it's different when you're playing one of these teams that you've never faced before but you can draw on stylistic Al are who did they who do they remind you of and I think defensively probably a little bit Virginia a little bit Clemson and so the pack has obviously uh played against those teams a total of four times three times against Virginia once against Clemson so at least having gone over that Scout and Kevin ke did it yesterday during the shoot around he he drew the Clemson comparison he said think about Clemson and some of the things we went over offensively when we we uh we got set we were preparing to play those guys I'm just watching Texas Tech warm up right now and 7' 230 lb senior transfer Warren Washington who transferred in from uh Arizona State uh who has been out with a foot injury since February 24th is out there warming up he's jumping he's dunking uh he's moving and uh he looks like he's to me probably 100% And should play in this game he started the first 20 four game of 24 games of the year for Texas Tech and he averages almost 10 points a game 7.4 rebounds uh one and a half Blocks he's their number one shot blocker he's their number two rebounder and it'll be interesting to see if uh he he's not going to start at least that's what we've been informed of but uh he's probably going to play and if he does uh how will Texas Tech try to deal with DJ Burns will they try to double him or will they just let Washington play in the post against him Robert Jennings will be the first man to guard him because that's the way that we've been told Texas Tech is going to start now Jennings has some uh bulk to him he's 67 230 lb but Burns is 69 and they list him at 275 but I think he's bigger than that so uh that'll be very interesting Tony to see how the Red Raiders try to to handle DJ Burns who uh you got to pick your poison I mean if you double him he's an elite passer if you don't he just backs you down turn turns you Every Which Way But lose let's pause 10 seconds for a station identification this is NC State basketball in the NCAA tournament Bob learfield yeah Gary going back to what you were talking about Warren Washington if he does play it's going to be an interesting dynamic because I I think that Texas Tech had gotten used to playing without him and in in in the minds of some of the analysts who were calling Texas Tech games late in the season they kind of felt like that the Red Raiders were actually tougher to play against without Washington when they were going small uh because they didn't have any issues with rebounding a lot of times when you play small the big thing you worry about most is rebounding and then defending in the post well the way they compensated for that when Washington was available uh they were doubling the post some if they felt like they needed to and they do have some really good big guys in the Big 12 and on occasion they would double down to the post they usually double with a guard not post to post like we see some of the ACC teams Virginia in particular they'll they'll double post to post well they'll bring their fourman over to double in the Post Texas Tech generally does it with their guard so they had gotten used to playing without Washington and and in many respects I think for NC State and for DJ bar Burns it's better if Washington plays first because I know Washington's a seven-footer but DJ Burns has shown us he can score on anybody he scores on big guys like the other night he was scoring on Armando Bott who's a pretty good shot Blocker in his own right what often baffles NC State and the coaches is the match up of okay the other team has a seven-footer or a 66 6768 guy who's a pick and pop player and he can do some damage on the perimeter those are the Dilemma matchups with DJ Burns Warren Washington's not that guy yeah that's good point he's not going to pick and pop you he's not going to catch it in the perimeter and try to drive it he's not going to shoot threes he's a true post player so those matchups aren't as difficult for DJ Burns granted now they will run pick and roll and run ball screens at DJ Burns and he struggles with that a little bit but again you know like last week against Duke and he say had to make a decision all right Kyle filipowski is playing the five he's a seven-footer but he's a pick and pop five he can screen and step back and shoot threes he can handle the ball in the perimeter so you didn't want DJ burds on him well they put him on Mark Mitchell and they just said sag off of him and if he wants to shoot the three so be it let him shoot the three but don't go out there and try to guard him on the perimeter cuz you'll get yourself in foul trouble they see Washington is not that guy Washington will be a back to The Backs an offensive player doesn't do damage away from the bucket so in some respects on the defensive matchup side I think that kind of helps since well we'll see one thing we know Pack's going to have to guard the three-point line because Chance McMillan who comes off the bench is a 40% three-point shooter he plays a lot this is his third NCAA tournament you've got Darion Williams who uh did not play against Houston because of the ankle sprain suffered against BYU in the Big 12 tournament but this guy averages 112 points a game and is a 47% three-point shooter and then you've got a former North Carolina player Kerwin Walton out of Hopkins Minnesota is a 65 senior he shoots 47% from Beyond The Arc and he led to Big 12 and three-point percentage this season he's a career 42% three-point shooter so and then pop isacs he's popping it from all over the place and he doesn't care where he shooting it from so uh th looking at looking at that uh is pretty concerning to me I don't know about you yeah they go surround you with good three-point Shooters we saw Kerwin Walton in North Carolina he'd come off the bench and that's all he did shoots threes but he is a good three-point shooter you got to be there with him you know he 71% of his shots are threes chance McMillan 64% of his shots are threes you look at Pop Isaac their leading score 51% of his shots are threes and you also Darren Williams who's a 664 really starts at the power four position uh he's a 46% three-point shooter so he can hurt you inside and out so yeah they're going to surround you with numerous guys that can make the three-point shot and uh you know it's like Kevin ke likes to say guard your yard uh guard your man with the ball keep him out of the paint and it makes it a little bit more difficult 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to you the voice of the wol pack Gary H thank you Tony in case you missed it Oakland upset Kentucky earlier tonight here in Pittsburgh 80-76 the head coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders is in his first year Grant McCaslin he's done a great job coming from North Texas the Red Raiders at 23 and 10 overall they finished fourth in the Big 12 during the regular season be BYU in the conference tournament before falling to number one ranked Houston in the semi-finals 8259 here's his lineup it'll be basically four guards around one forward so let's run down the guards for you the point guard will be Joe tcat from the Bronx New York a West Virginia transfer who also played three years at Iowa 6 feet tall 190 lb senior transfer 12.1 points 2.6 rebounds a team leading 4.3 assists a team leading 1.4 steals the second guard is Darion Williams a NADA transfer he's a sophomore from Sacramento California 66 225 he's a tough customer 11.4 points a game a team leading 7.5 rebounds almost 2 and 1 half assists 1.2 steals this guy is a deadly three-point shooter at 47% he was voted third Team all Big 12 and all Big 12 rookie team the third guard is pop Isaacs from Las Vegas Nevada 62 180 lb soft War uh the pop is the leading score for Texas Tech at 15.9 points 3.2 rebounds 3.5 assists one steel third Team all Big 12 very confident leads a team and three-point makes an attempts and uh is a guy that NC State's really going to have to limit tonight the fourth guard is Kerwin Walton a former North Carolina player from Hopkins Minnesota 652 tenis senior 8.4 points shoots 47% sent from beond the ark he started 25 straight games for the Texas Tech Red Raiders seventh year the pack comes in 22 and 14 overall the Atlantic Coast Conference champions winning five games and five days last week in Washington DC here's coach kei's lineup the point guard Michael oconnell out of minola New York 62 195 played three years at Stanford 5.7 points 3.3 rebounds three assists shoots 35% set from behind the ark DJ horn is the second guard of three 6-2 graduate transfer from Arizona State 16.9 points to lead the pack a 41% three-point shooter for this third Team all ACC selection Casey Morel will be starting his 84th straight game in a wol pack uniform 63200 graduate student Casey Morel averaging 11.5 points a game 2.8 rebounds almost two assists and one steal uh he is uh probably the glue guy for NC State solid Defender Mohamad diar is one of the two forwards 610 Junior transfer from Missouri six points a game 7.4 rebounds one block during the ACC tournament averaged almost a double double 9.2 points 12 rebounds 2.2 assists almost two Steals and 2.2 blocks he is NC State's most improved player by far and DJ Burns is inside with him out of Rock Hill South Carolina 69 275 graduate student 12.4 points four rebounds 2.8 assists during the ACC tournament Burns averaged 15.2 points four rebounds at 3.4 assists and shot almost 60% from the field both teams coming out and lining up around the center circle Tony chazza Darren George Lucas Nelson are the officials here's the toss of the tip as diara jumps it up against Robert Jennings and the pack will get the first possession shooting at the goal to our right here's oconnell guarded by pop ISAC behind the arc rightwing to Morel right of the lane to Burns Burns against Jennings backs him down sends it to morsel repost to Burns Burns cuts into the lane mid lane hooks it up with the left hand off no good tip is uh taken by pop ISAC and here comes Texas Tech Isaac's down the floor from right to left in front of us to Williams Darion Williams guarded by modara now to Jennings back to Williams straight on jumper for two is no good and burns rebounds for NC State up the floorida DJ horn horn into the front Court steps back fires a three misses and tcat the smallest player on the floor at six feet tall he's got the rebound he's coming the other way quickly tant to the line down the lane stops turn around jumper left to the Lane got it tant with the first two points of the game it's two Nothing Texas Tech pack coming the other way trying to tire take the lead early here's horn behind the arc right wing to Burns right of the Lane Burns starts to back in against Jennings he spins past him the basket reverse layup won't go loose Jennings comes up with a loose ball head man pass to tcad tcad up the floor guarded by hor gets all the way to the Baseline now shovels it outside to pop ISAC drives in from the left side shoots a floater got it that's that floater game we talked about comparable to DJ horn got that ball up off one foot just kind of floated over the outstretch arms of the larger DJ Burns pack has the basketball with Casey Morel to the high post of burns right wing to okon shoots for three too long and on the missed shot and the rebound we've got a foul and it's going to go I think against Texas Tech and Kerwin Walton will have to double check that but that'll be the first foul of the game and the pack will inbound Baseline left with oconnell gets it to burn Burns left of the lane backs in against Jennings backs him down he spins to his left underneath knocks him over blocking foul on Jennings and Jennings just got run over by a freight train named DJ Burns Burns will go to the line for I believe they're going to give him two shots or they just going to call that common foul they said foul on the floor no shots shot clock will reset we've played almost 2 minutes of the first half and it's 4 Nothing Texas Tech yeah yeah going to Burns often and early that's what we've seen in NC State do customarily Force the defense and make a decision on how they're going to guard him so far they're defending one-on-one OK connellan bounds to Burns left of the lane he throws his shoulder into Jennings knocks him down offensive foul DJ Burns that's the Pack's first foul of the game well that's interesting now because Jennings flopped the first time it was called a block he flopped the second time it was called a charge and again these are officials who are not accustomed to officiating J Burns so we're going to have to keep an eye on that Texas Tech employing the strategy that Clemson used the first time around last year by flopping to S with a basketball in the front Court as uh the Red Raiders broke some NC State backourt pressure now Isaac gets it deep right Isaac striving to the foul line of Jenny strip stolen away Casey morcel comes up with a loose ball on a deflection here's Casey into the front court for NC State off a burn screen drives to his left out oconnell at The Point left wing to horn horn against Pop Isaacs he gets a screen from oconnell moves out toward the midcourt area two side picks him up 14 to shoot left wing to oconnell 11 to shoot oconnell deep left wing oconnell driving to the Elbow now to Burns Burns in the mid lane area turns fire as he misses off to the right the on the put back got it and a foul and just using his size right there reaching right across the top of Williams who's at 66 Williams got to the inside of Dr but diaro at 610 with those long arms was able to go straight up without making contact from behind and grabbing that rebound and then following it up for an N1 opportunity and Mo just uh continues to rebound at a very high level BS on Walton that's his second team second diara studies for an n one free throw Middlebrooks checks in for DJ Burns free throw goes down for diara in the oldfashioned three-point play and the pack pulls to within one Texas Tech has a 4-3 lead 1711 left to go first half Williams has it behind the arc left wing off a screen by McMillan who's just checked in drives left Baseline shot up blocked Away by diara out of bounds that have belonged to Texas Tech with 17 on the shot clock we played almost three minutes of the first half and Texas Tech with a one-point lead 4 to3 Williams will trigger it in Darion Williams 66 225 lbs gets it to twocan top of the key Tucson right wing to pop ISAC morcel is on him back to Tucson he'll five for three left of the key no good well McMillan gets the Deep rebound he'll send it out to pop isacs now in the corner to an open Williams Williams driving to two sides straight on three on the way good coming after an offensive rebound when DJ horn did not block out his man McMillan who went right to the front of the rim freely without a body preventing him from going to get that offensive glass 73 Texas Tech leads NC State ball 16 and 1 half to go here's horn driving left Baseline underneath the middle Brooks layup up good what a nice pass by DJ horn middle Brooks with his first basket and it's 7 to5 pack trailing by two Texas Tech basketball as Tucan who's lightning quick this guy can stop on a dime gives it up left wing to Williams drives toward the left Baseline di picks him up now to pop Isaacs and morcel is on him whips it in the corner to McMillan shot in the air for three no good rebound pulled down by oconnell and he's running okon long down the floor to morcel but Texas Tech Sprints back here's morcel driving right Baseline backs out splits a double team he pump takes puts it up and hit the underside of the board he was racked by Williams Williams just clocked him and the foul on Darion Williams will be his first team's third and it'll be Casey Morel going to the free throw line for NC State when we come out of the under 16 media timeout 1552 to go first half here in Pittsburg in the NCAA south regional you score Texas Tech 7 NC State 5 this is Wolfpack basketball from [Music] learfield and we're back with the action Coke Zero sugar might be the best Coke ever that's right Jim with an irresistible taste and zero sugar Coke Zero sugar is a must try for any sports fan so make sure you wait Jim I didn't mean to try it right now we're still on the air best Coke ever take a taste Jen really no not right now Jen we got a game to call drivers who switch and save with Progressive could save hundreds which could be lifechanging I mean 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decent looks early missed them picked up a foul on an offensive foul Kevin Keats got him out of there and it's really nice Gary when you got a couple other bigs you know can produce now offensively bid Brooks and diara ab been productive on the offensive end uh here during the postseason going back to the ACC tournament last week and you know most of the year they were they were better Defenders and rebounders but they weren't nearly as productive offensively I don't think either of them is going to go out and put up DJ Burns's numbers most of the night but now you have a little more confidence if you're Kevin Keats uh you can turn to Middlebrooks at that five position and give DJ Burns a blow and we see Texas Tech from the Big 12 and their coach Grant McCaslin has told his bigs more specifically Robert Jennings at 6 and S 67 if he starts backing in backing in backing in trying to push you push you around go down take the Flop see how this officiating crew is going to call it uh you know most of the ACC bigs other than Clemson last year chose not to do that because they figured with ACC officiating Crews they decided they weren't going to get the call well DJ Burns did get one of those called on him he has one fle sitting on the bench right now he's going to have to adjust pack started this game missing its first five shots now it's two of seven uh three of seven for Texas Tech uh DJ Burns missed his first three shots so he's off to a little bit of a rocky start morcel at the line fouled before the timeout the NC State senior misses the first free throw which is a little bit odd because at the ACC tournament he was 20 out of 21 at 25 five points against Louisville in the ACC tournament opener oh he's loosens up and he shoots the second free throw swish so Morel gets one out of two and it's seven to six pack pulls to within one little backourt pressure now here's Isaac he'll throw it ahead to Williams Williams against di he'll put on the brakes and send it out to Tucson at the point with 20 to shoot toan off the screen by Warren Williams the seven-footer who's in now protect Tas Tech gives it to Isaac behind the arc left wing Rises forces up a three off the back iron no fight for the rebound it's tipped outside Horn's got it for NC State here's horn up the floor from left to right horn to the line to the Lane to the hole misses and the rebound pulled down by Williams midcourt pass to Isaac Isaacs to the line all the way to the basket shoots a runner missed it and Middlebrooks or diara will be whistled for the foul and it will be Ben Middlebrooks picking up the second team foul for NC State first on Middlebrook and this will be pop Isaac's going to the line Isaac's an 84% free throw shooter he's had some big games had 32 points at BYU during the regular season and they don't call him pop for nothing they call him Pop I think because he shoots a lot he he pops it a lot forel out and Jaden Taylor in now for NC State takes a bunch of shots but has a lot of big games as I said he's got the bright green light when it comes to taking shots almost as bright as those green shoes he's wearing tonight he makes two free throws and Texas Tech leads 9 to6 1516 to go first half here in Pittsburgh OK Connell across the timeline moves to his left throws it back middle of Florida horn straight on Long B range three got it that was almost NBA range for DJ horn and the pack has tied the game at nine a little bit of three4 qut pressure by NC State just to slow the Raiders down pop Isaac works it across the the timeline gives the seven-footer Washington back to Isaac into the corner to Williams Williams gets Mo diara he'll flip it out to pop Isaac straight away Taylor's on him left wing to two side Fires for three short rebound pulled down by diara for NC State Outlet pass to DJ horn horn weaves his way up the floor all the way to the Baseline sends it to oconnell now to Middlebrooks and Middlebrooks will shovel it back to DJ horn long three left wing got it McMillan made the mistake of going under on that dribble handoff you got to try to follow horn Over the Top If you go under he's going to get an open look on a three-pointer like he did there Texas Tech breaks the Press with a long three quarter Court pass to chance McMillan McMillan will send it back outside to Joe tside the lightning quick point guard who played last year at West Virginia gives it up to McMillan a great three-point shooter now to the high Post in Washington back to McMillan left of the lane McMillan sends it to to side five to shoot to Williams three ball on the way short rebound pulled down by horn Outlet to oconnell and the pack is pushing at every opportunity but Texas Tech sprinting back here's okon driving to the left elbow up for a fade away jump shot missed it rebound tipped and controlled by Williams two to side Here Comes Texas Tech running from right to left Tan in underneath the Williams Jabs it Washington pardon me yeah he picked a little drag screen on the ball there but then SLI to the basket great read by tucon who finds Washington right at the front of the rim for a throw down seven-footer doesn't miss many dunks and it's 12 to 11 NC State with the ball on the lead here's diara Hilt up a three for the right side off the back iron no Washington with a rebound for Texas Tech to Isaac to two side left wing in front of us two side now to Isaac's middle of the floor drives on oconnell he shoots the runner off the back iron no oconnell rebounds for NC State and here comes the pack from left to right Isaac fouls him in the back court that was not a smart foul by pop Isaac that was the fourth foul now on Texas Tech Isaac's will check out Kerwin Walton with two fouls comes back in for the Red Raiders uh no change in the NC State lineup Burns still on the bench and Horn coming over now to talk with oh he's going to come out so uh horn will come out o Connell and morcel are the guards middle Brooks and diara up front along with Taylor Middle Brooks middle of the floor takes it against Washington couple of big dribbles gives to Taylor tries to turn the corner around the left side slips but maintains gives it to diara now right of the lane to Middle Brooks backs in against Washington turns jump hook up with the left hand rims in and you said it with the left hand one of the things middle Brooks has shown us and this is great for a big guy if you can use both hands around the basket definitely gives you an advantage 1411 will pack with the lead Texas Tech basketball here's Williams with it in front of us left wing drives all the way to the Baseline underneath to McMillan layup good McMillan got free from the right side got right under the hole got a nice pass and it's 1413 NC State leads by one with 124 to go wolf pack ball middle Brooks has it top of the key one dribble hands off to Taylor 19 to shoot Taylor fakes left goes right now way to Morel behind the arc left wing 12 to shoot now to oconnell oconnell drives to the foul line rightwing pass into the corner to Taylor Taylor throws it on the wing threw it away picked off by two side three on two left wing to two side he'll shoot for three no good in transition ball back Tapped Out Washington's got a top of the key Washington hands off to Kerwin Walton Walton drives to the left elbow up for the jump shot missed it rebound is loose and Middlebrooks takes it for NC State pack has a one-point lead at 1413 with 1134 to go here in the first half in the NCAA south regional in Pitsburg middle Brooks left wing hands off to oconnell 16 to shoot now the leftand corner to to Taylor Taylor moves it out onto the wing after a deflection now to Middle Brooks at the foul line he'll drive the lane fires it up off the glass good and the foul on Washington first foul on Washington 15 foul already on Texas Tech and Middlebrooks will go to the line middle Brooks Has Come Off the Bench toh go three for three shooting he'll get an and one free throw when we 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Washington remember the seven-footer for Texas teken missed nine consecutive games with a foot injury so you know his conditioning isn't great at this point and we don't know about his Mobility either when you're missing nine games because of a foot injury that is a tough injury for a big guy and so middle Brooks going right at him scoring off the glass drawing the contact and Ben Middlebrooks picks up his second basket of this first half he's got actually his third basket of the first half he's three for three with six points trying to add and one here on the free throw like the way he's continue to improve his offensive game DJ Burns is going to come back out there now and Gary for the one of the few times we going to see Burns and Middlebrooks playing together uh that doesn't happen very much but Dennis Parker Jr's still not available he would normally come in and Sub in at the four middleb going to play the four Burns Jr is going to be the five now NC State six of 14 shooting and is Tech five of 15 here in the first half yeah we'll see if the pack can get DJ Burns going he is uh 0 for three to start this game and let's see it looks like Texas Tech going small again got Washington out of there so here's Middlebrooks for the and one free throw out of the timeout got it mid Brooks last five games been 18 out of 21 for the lons so make it 19 out of 22 pack pressing and two s's kind of a oneman press breaker this guy is really lightning quick but Taylor's all over him Tad gives it up top of the key to Williams Williams hands off to McMillan McMillan guarded by horn shot clock at 15 now to Williams deep right guarded by Middlebrooks he'll rise he'll fire long bomb three got it from the right side that's the first basket for Darion Williams a 47% three-point shooter third Team all Big 12 and that's a tough matchup because he's a smallest fourman who can do that come off screens and two threes here's horn driving left Baseline crosscourt skip pass to morcel he's got the bigger Williams on him now to Burns back to Morel off of burns screen Fires for three misses and here's Middlebrooks on the follow backup reverse layup won't go he's hammered down he goes he got that on the right block he got the rebound then went right underneath the basket tried to use the other side of the rim shot was blocked and he was uh fouled hard on the play that'll be the 16am foul on the uh Texas Red Raiders and I think that foul went on Williams but I'm not sure we'll have to double check Jennings all right Jennings first foul and the free throw yeah it's good middle Brook's a oneman wrecking crew right now now Dr was at the scores table he was going to come in from Middlebrooks who was having a hard time guarding Williams which you can understand because Williams is an undersized fourman middle Brooks makes a second free throw and now I think that di will come and and Sub in for him I mentioned that middle Brooks and burns playing together that means middle Brooks has to play the four but in this matchup that's kind of tough for him because uh Williams is a very mobile power forward at 66 who can shoot threes for Texas Tech Walton and Jennings sit down Texas Tech basketball willpack leads by three 1916 with 1022 to go here's Isaac's left wing morcel is on him long rightwing pass to tuad drives the lane gets in traffic stops pops hits well that wasn't pretty he stumbled almost lost his footing but then regained it and was able to go straight up uncontested to make that shot in the middle of the lanane back leads 1918 10 minutes to go first half and has the basketball against Texas Tech man-to-man defense rightwing pass goes to Morel right of the lane to Burns Burns against Washington backs him down Washington banging on him pushing him no foul called burns into the middle of the lane hooks it up with the left hand it rims off no good and Washington rebounds for Texas burns his 0 for four now to Isaac's long left wing pass to Williams shot in the L in the air from the left corner no good for three and the rebound pulled down by horn horn for NC State weaving his way up the floor left wing he'll stop he'll fire along three in and out no good Washington rebounds for Texas Tech and the Raiders are running with tucon tucon up the left sideline moves to the line to the Lane puts up the shot blocked by diara and a whistle and a foul is going to be called on Jaden Taylor or the wolf pack his first and that'll be the third team foul for NC State so 16am fouls for Texas Tech and uh three now for NC State and tcat will be going to the line Ben middleberg Middlebrooks I should say has scored the last seven points for NC State according to our St statistician Howard bom here's tuad at the line for the first of two free throws he Nails it he's an 86% free throw shooter he'll get another you want to keep these guys off the line one of the best pre throw shooting teams in the country at 78% not a lot of weak links when they go to the foul line Taylor out o Connell in for the willpack second free throw is a bullseye for two side he's got nine points for the Red Raiders leads have been scoring so far and they regain the lead now 20 to 19 with 912 to go in the first half Michael oconnell with the basketball weaving his way toward the left side to the foul line at Burns Burns drives the basket hooks it up good yeah and that time he got Warren Washington off balance and Washington just kind of stumbled a little bit after they set a little back screen for burns to get him down in The Sweet Spot in that post 2120 wol pack leading here's Tucan top of the KY lost the Basketball picks it up gives his to Isaac who was 16 to shoot left wing he'll curled to the foul line bounce pass in underneath the Washington tried to go up for a shot stepped on the Baseline underneath the basket turns it over that'll be the second Texas Tech turnover Tony yeah Washington looks really rusty guy out of shape hadn't played in a while I would imagine NC State try to get the ball to Burns again right here go right after him packed by one with the ball 2120 is the NC State lead 8 and 1/2 minutes to go for a half horn has it deep left Burns screens horns rejects it he drives the lane scooped to the hoop off the glass got it well you said it rejected the ball screen and turned Washington around like a top and got all the way to the bucket time Texas Tech 818 to play first half pack up by three 2320 and this will be a full timeout will'll take it with them from PPG Paints Arena and Pittsburgh you're listening to the NCAA south regional your score with 818 to go in the first half NC State 23 Texas Tech 20 don't go away this is wol Pack basketball from learfield Harris terer is proud to assist its customers and communities every day with their Food and pharmacy needs this season Harris Teeters partner with NC State Duke UNCC and Wake Forest to present the big for grocery assist promotion each week one lucky fan has chosen to win $5 in free 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evic and HD Plus visit a.com for more information half number one andc state up on Texas Tech 23-20 DJ horn he's just a great scorer what can you say today hits from three gets to the rim got a great mid-range game as well he's kind of showing a little bit of everything here in this first half two of four from three-point range three of six overall he's got eight points but the packs leading score is Ben Middlebrooks nine points three of three shooting and they've decided Texas Tech to bring Warren Washington back tonight he's the seven footer really their only big and he had missed nine games because of a foot injury and he just looks like a guy that hasn't played in a while and NC State is going right at him they're going at him on the drive whether it's horn or Middlebrooks uh also getting the ball to DJ Burns working him over down in the low post I think that if you're Grant McCaslin you're thinking DJ Burns you saw what he did against uh especially against North Carolina last week you feel like you got to put your seven-footer out there but I don't just don't know how ready he is to play C struggling on the defensive end of the four when they put him in some some ball screens as we saw on the previous possession when DJ horn was able to get all the way to the class for a layup out of the timeout it'll be Texas Tech basketball pardon me and pop Isaac will trigger it in against a little bit of token pressure ball goes into two side now back to Isaac to two side and he will dribble it across the timeline and get it into the front Court gives to Williams Williams drives toward the left Baseline sends it top of the key to Washington now right wing to McMillan McMillan right of the lane against torn backs it out gives it to ISAC tend to shoot crosscourt skip pass to Williams Williams drives in mid lane area pump fakes puts it up shot blocked by di he gets it right back whistle blows uh held ball and the arrow pointing to Texas Tech but the shot clock will not reset it'll be 2.8 to shoot for Texas T one an excellent job by Dr holding his ground against Daren Williams he's a pretty mobile guy at 66 and we got the under eight media timeout with 751 left to go in the first half your score NC State 23 Texas Tech 20 this is willpack basketball in the NCAA tournament from learfield C kicks the ticketing app for fans like the sideline shot CER come on boys pick up the paint SE got him a great deal on seats right near the action so when he yells what are you doing he could be absolutely sure the players heard him SeatGeek handles the tickets to sports concerts and more so fans can fan it's bow time sometimes the craving for Bojangle Supremes is so strong you just got to have them even when your gas tank is on empty and Bojangles is still 10 Mi down the highway nothing beats the flavor of Bojangle juicy golden Supremes especially when they're part of a Perfect combo with four boldly seasoned chicken Supremes A made from scratch biscuit fixen and some legendary iced tea the only thing that can satisfy your hunger is that delicious Southern flavor so when the craving is supreme put the pedal to the metal it's bow [Music] time NC State athletics trust the health and safety of his players and staff with make medical laboratories makeo medical is focused on providing the pack with fast accurate and Innovative testing options for its teams what a valuable player mod diara has become for NY State on many levels first the rebounding speaks for itself but at 610 he can go out and defend a smaller more mobile skilled player like he's seeing tonight Darion Williams now Williams plays the four he's probably more of a three but this is a team that play small Texas Tech but if you got a 610 guy like diara who can go out and guard him and keep him in front and then use his size as we saw right before that held ball once Williams got him in the lane to go straight up and block the shot boy that is a defensive weapon we saw what happened when middle Brooks played the four for a short period of time he kind of backed off and Williams hit him with a three coming off a ball screens so been middle Brooks all year he hasn't played the four position he's not used to guarding coming off of ball screens he's used to helping on ball screens at the five but they ran him off as whereas mod diara is a totally different story he is 610 but he's been a perimeter Defender many times this year even when he switches off on guards and he just made a terrific play there blocking that shot away got his hand on top of the ball they called a hell ball so when we come out of this time out Texas Tech will have 2.8 to shoot 751 to play in the first half the pack is up 23 to 20 NY State first half shooting 8 of 19 that's 42% Texas Tech seven of 19 each team with 23 Point baskets I think the packs done a nice job of uh really being staying out there on the three-point shot think about pop Isaac's Gary a guy that is a high volume shooter he's only put up three shots so far Casey morcel has been on him a lot well that was our number one key guard the three-point line because Texas Tech relies on the three-point shot a lot Williams will trigger it in out of the timeout with 2.8 seconds to shoot Baseline right for Texas Tech he looks he looks he looks he's having trouble now he sends it out to McMillan McMillan Rises fires a jumper for two straight on GED 2322 Texas Tech pulls to within one NC State ball with 740 remaining okon bounces it behind the arc deep left to horn horn drives past to side into the corner outside to diara hands back to DJ horn ball knocked Away by tcat and then a travel call on DJ horn with two side all over him so that is turnover number three for the wol pack only two turnovers so far for Texas Tech Red Raiders with a chance to Tire Take the Lead this time down with 722 to go here's Tucson off a Washington screen driving left to the key falls down loose ball and Washington picks it up now to Washington straight on for for Isaac his three ball won't go rebounded by diara Outlet pass to oconnell in the pack pushing here's oconnell into the corner to Casey morcel moves it out to the point now curls down the lane he goes Turn Around jumper won't go Washington with a rebound for Texas Tech out let to pop Isaac's Isaac's up the floor straight away puts his head down drives toward the left elbow morcel makes contact and a foul on Casey Morel will be his first that'll be the fourth foul for for NC State the next foul for Texas Tech will put NC State in the one of bonus 651 to go 23-22 will pack Texas Tech inbounds from the the Baseline Washington gets it gives to Williams curls into the paint lost to got it back ball deflex back into the back court off the hand of Jaden Taylor pop ISAC gets it drives all the way to the basket left hand layia missed it and the rebound pulled down by diara almost threw it away but oconnell tracks it down along the far Sid line and brings it into the front Court gives to diara with 20 to shoot now to horn horn against to side he'll drive him left to the Lane leans in fires it rims off no good and the rebound to Washington here comes the Red Raiders Isaac's with the basketball left wing to two side he fakes left drives right back to the left on the left elbow shoots fires and hits yeah he's good at separating from Defenders little hesitation moves crossover dribbles like that got a good look from 17 ft 2423 Red Raiders by one will Pack basketball with 557 to go behind the arc right wing DJ horn looking sends it out to oconnell back to Horn 13 to shoot to Burns on the right wing Burns against Washington spins past him goes the basket lays it up good yep over playing that right shoulder so he spins opposite spins Baseline that time and not a lot of resistance there put up by Washington 2524 packed by one tucon gets around oconnell drives the lane layup good pack gets the ball out of the basket quickly up the front Court into the front court with oconnell swings it right side to Jaden Taylor he's back in right of the lane now to Burns against Washington he backs him in backs him in he turns goes mid lane tries to throw it to Dear ball hit the board diar gets it puts it up shot blocked out of bounds diar got hit in the nose and seeing if there's any blood there by Washington but no whistle ball out of bounds it'll be Wolfpack basketball with 11 to shoot DJ horn checks out for NC State so it's Taylor morcel oconnell Burns and diara burns gets the inbounds pass from the left Baseline left to the Lane he backs in backs in against Jennings backs him down three to shoot two to shoot Burns hooks it up with the left hand and rims in and the pack leads 2726 seesaw Fair back and forth here in the first half 449 to play two side for the Red Raiders against Casey morcel off of Jenning screen he rejects it goes left to the Lane bounces inside for a layup good by Jennings yeah there's a pick and roll right there Jennings with the ball screen pulled Burns away towards the ball and two side and then Jennings went to that dunker spot right in under the rim nice pass 28 27 Texas Tech with the lead NC State ball 423 to go Borel right wing on top to DJ Burns now to oconnell oconnell driving and away from the basketball pop ISAC hits the floor and an apparently illegal screen by DJ Burns he picks up his second foul so Burns is probably going to have to go to the bench that's the 15am foul on NC State and Ben Middlebrooks who's had a heck of a first half with nine points including three of three from the foul line comes in replace DJ Burns Red Raiders by one 28-27 417 to go first half McMillan back in the Red Raider lineup is one of the guards with Tucson and pop Isaac's along the perimeter here's Tucson at the point drives left now way to Isaac straight away Taylor on him bounces it to the high post to Jennings back to Isaac's on the give and go layup good nice little back door cut there by Isaac really quick did an excellent job of setting up Jaden Taylor 30 to 27 Texas Tech leads NC State ball with 347 to go I think these last three minutes are going to be real important here's Middlebrooks behind the arc right wing he hands it away to Morel morcel drives to the foul line turn around jumper on the way no good long diar with a put back good five for diara 30 to 29 pack pulls to within one 325 to go in an active first half back and forth at several lead changes in this game here's Tucson off a screen drives the lane puts it up Morel blocks the shot into the hands of middle Brooks long down the floorida Taylor as the ball raped Away by McMillan which saved either a layup or a dunk by NC State at the other end it'll be Pack basketball with 26 to shoot coming out of this timeout 3029 Texas Tech leads NC today here in the NCAA south regional in Pittsburgh 311 left to go before the halftime break the Red Raiders by one you're listening to NCAA tournament basketball on the woolpack sports network from learfield 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empty and Bojangles is still 10 Mi down the highway nothing beats the flavor of Bojangle juicy golden Supremes especially when they're part of a Perfect combo with four boldly seasoned chicken Supremes A made from scratch biscuit fixen and some legendary iced tea the only thing that can satisfy your hunger is that delicious Southern flavor so when the craving is supreme put the pedal to the metal it's bow [Music] time earlier tonight here in Pittsburgh Oakland shocked Kentucky 80 to 76 so the winner of this one between NC State and Texas Tech Will face off against Oakland on Saturday and right now the Red Raiders leading NC State 30-29 we have 311 to go in the first half pack will'll have the basketball when we resume the guy that's really doing a lot of damage for NC State right now is Joe tucon he's the quick Savvy 6o senior point guard and he is getting in the paint with regularity and he's also scoring the ball he's got 13 points on five of nine shooting he's also out a couple of assists now we saw last week in the ACC tournament when NC State played a couple point guards who were big paint touch guys like Judah minz and Elliot gdau of North Carolina the pack was giving some ground on those two players because neither of them really wants to shoot the three they they want to put it down and get in the paint and make plays for themselves and their teammates tucon is a little bit different he too like to M and ellieo he's quick off the bouns and he can beat you off the dribble and get in the paint but if you play off and you sag off of him he will hit threes he will take it too he'll he's you know he's only 30% but he's a confident three-point shooter and so you know it puts you in a little bit of a conundrum defensively against him cuz right now he is really hurting the pack with his paint touches pack in bounds Baseline right with oconnell out of the timeout gets it to DJ horn who's back in back to oconnell Behind The Arc right wing right of the lane to Middlebrooks 20 to shoot down to horn horn straight away right of the lane to Middlebrook Spence toward the basket he's tripped and there's contact I think they're going to uh they're going to call tcad here now tcad gets up like he wants to take a swing at Middlebrooks that that's a mismatch middle Brooks is 610 240 tant only 190 lbs if that at 6 feet tall so that's a lot of nothing and we've got a whistle and a foul and let's see who they're going to it's the seventh team foul on Texas Tech let's see who they're going to award it and Tucson picks up his first Middlebrooks now goes to the free throw line for the front end of the one and one he could tie the game at 30 if he can knock it down 301 to go before halftime shot up good 10 points for Middlebrooks he leads NC State and scoring horn has eight diar with five burns with six burns on the bench right now but he's hit his last three shots second free throw good by Middlebrooks and it's 3130 the pack has a one-point lead just under 3 minutes to play first half here in Pittsburgh here's two side guarded by morcel gives it to Williams straightway in the midcourt area Williams guarded by diara Williams sends it left wing to McMillan McMillan behind the arc left wing Now to pop Isaac who's two for six shooting Isaac has it straight away he'll drive the lane stops he pops he misses tip is high in the air loose horn picks it up for FR e State loose ball horns got it into the front Court two and 1/2 minutes to go first half down of middle Brooks between the Rings Middlebrooks driving hands to Horn left wing horn against Tucan picks up his dribble to morcel 13 to shoot Morel at the point right wing to oconnell right of the lane to Middlebrooks drives on Jennings to the block he turns he pump fakes he puts it up with the right hand wild shot off the board no good Williams rebounds for Texas Tech Darion Williams up the floor into the front Court to Tucson now to ISAC against oconnell they try to Blitz him and the pass is knocked Away by oconnell but Isaac's gets it to McMillan for three left wing no good rebound pulled down by diara for NC State gives it to oconnell oconnell up the floor from left to right stops the Middlebrooks mid lane he turns Fade Away jumper left of the lane won't go rebounded by Jennings for the Red Raiders away to Tucan Tucan brings it up right side stop crosscourt skip pass goes to McMillan can't shoot out to Isaac Isaac's left to the key he'll start to drive on oconnell sends it on the pick and roll his pass knocked away intended for Jennings Middlebrooks picks it up for NC State and head to Horn to Morel Fires for three and transition go for the right side and it was Casey morcel on the other end who was tagging on the pick and roll on the screener who forced that turnover with a deflection and the packs got the lead by four with 104 remaining in the half 34-3 Texas Tech basketball here's Tucan with a basketball Tucan off a Williams screen gets it to Williams Williams on the pick and pop can't pop now to two side he will fire for three left side off the back iron no good ball back tapped outside touch Last by McMillan it'll belong to NC State with the 30 to shoot 45.9 to play here in the first half pack really putting together some excellent defensive sequences here and Middlebrooks really blitzing on the ball screens more than we've seen because the man he's guarding Robert Jennings setting those screens he's not a big factor offensively so you can leave him and go double the ball and reroute the basketball near midcourt yeah Jennings only averages about four and a half points a game here's o Connell left wing for NC State inside the Middlebrooks lays it up it rolls in and the foul and the foul is on the big guy wash waren Washington who just checked in during that last dead ball that's his second team's eighth Middlebrooks having an outstanding first half of basketball 13 points he'll go to the line for an and one free throw he had a big game against Virginia in the ACC tournament with 12 points six rebounds three Steals and two blocks but he's got a heck of a line going here with 13 points here's the n one free throw good 10 and0 Run 10 run for NC State middle Brooks been right in the middle of it 3730 packed by seven now it's large as first half lead let's see if the pack can get a stop here and close out the Red Raiders to Sid standing just inside the midcourt line just leisurely dribbling the basketball shot clock down to 13 two seconds between the shot clock in the game clock Tucan they're going to try to clear out for him he's going to drive left side of the lane stops gives to pop Isaac straight on three on the way off the back iron no good Tucan gets the rebound into the corner to Williams shot in the air for three good from the right corner at the horn it counts Darion Williams with his second three of the game off a pass from twoot Nails it from the right corner and instead of a seven-point halftime lead for the pack it's down to four at 3733 but a good first half of basketball Tony for NC State here in the NCAA tournament yeah that one kind of stings though because it came off of a long rebound a Long offensive rebound pop Isaac's missed a an open three but it came off the back they back tapped it and they were able to get the ball in the hands of tucon and as NC State's uh defense they were scrambling to get matched up uh Williams was left open in the corner and that's sometimes you get the best uh looks for a three-point shot off of those offensive rebounds and coming into that one Texas Tech only had five second chance points but they finished with eight so NC State had been on a great run 10 nothing run but on a second chance after an offensive rebound Williams hits the three to make it a four-point NC State lead and at the 311 Mark the pack actually trailed by one uh by 30 to 29 and then uh over the last 311 outscores Texas Tech 8 to3 to end the half the pack leads uh by four at the break ID and 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to go in that opening half after he picked up his second foul but what a nice insurance policy when you can bring M Ben Middlebrooks in there to play the five position and you look at Burns and Middlebrooks combined they had 20 points playing that same position so very effective nighte for the pack at the five and you kind of figured coming in you know NC State was going to have to get something out of its bigs against a Texas Tech team that had a lot of question marks at that Center spot because Warren Washington the seven-footer had missed nine games in a row now he's back tonight but he hasn't been terribly effective at all and NC state has kind of worked him over when he's been on the defensive end but when he's not in there they have 67 Robert Jennings playing their Center Spot and NC State was also able to do some damage on him so you know Texas Tech a good team uh one that's nationally ranked they finished in a tie for third in the Big 12 uh but it's all about the perimeter with them because uh they're not very strong at that at that five position right now especially with Washington coming back uh from an injury they are good at guard one of their two guards was great tucon 13 points five of 10 shooting but pop Isaac's their leading scorer who averages 16 points per game NC State did a tremendous job on him as Isaac scored only six points two for eight shooting and no threes and that's an important number with him but he's going to keep on shooting it he has no conscience and he's a guy that has a short memory and he might miss three or four in a row but he's going to keep shooting them until he finds that heat check moment and he's pretty good at that but NC State shooting 43% in the first half Texas Tech at 41% both teams with three three-pointers so it's all even there and the W pack goes in with that 37-33 lead trying to move on and advance and face off against upstart Oakland with stunned Kentucky earlier tonight here in this building 80 to 76 and we'll 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volunteer is up 6534 950 to play in that one Drake against Washington State that's part of the east region and at the half Washington State leading 33-29 sford a 13 seed going up against number four Kansas which has really been beat up missing a couple of key guys but with 339 to go in the first half cams and Kansas leading that one 40-28 now to to the finals and number nine Michigan State tripped up eight seed Mississippi State today 69- 51 BYU takes it on the chin Duane and 11 seed beat number 6 BYU 7167 now two 11s have won today already NC State is also 11 and seat trying to make it a third team moving on from uh that seat number 14 akaran going up against three seed kraton here the first game of the day in Pittsburgh and kraton wins decisively 77-60 another final Arizona beat up on Long Beach State 85 to 65 Arizona 2 seat Wagner or North Carolina a one seat taking care of business in Charlotte today tar Hills run it up on Wagner 90 to 62 it was Illinois 85 Morehead State 69 Illinois a three seat here's another one of those 116 upsets and it happened here today the second game of the day in Pittsburgh Oregon up South Carolina 87-73 also Dayton going up against Nevada and the Flyers hold on to win 63-60 and also Colorado state which beat Virginia the other night in the first four and Colorado state had a tough time putting the ball in the hole today against Texas losing 56-44 we mentioned that upset here earlier tonight Oakland beating Kentucky 80 to 76 Oakland with 15 made threes in that game Iowa State a two seed winning over South Dakota State 82-65 and another final now Gaga of five beats MCN 86 to 65 and that is our halftime scoreboard here from Pittsburgh PPG Paints Arena andc States 2 and0 in this building we remember knocking off LSU here the famous BJ Ana shot uh to lift the pack over LSU and then the wol pack came back two nights later and knocked off number one seed Villanova to Advan to the Sweet 16 so NC State hoping for more Good Vibes here in 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second half started let's head back to Pittsburgh and we are indeed back in Pittsburgh with Gary H I'm Tony Haynes the woolpack coming back out on the floor as we get set for a second half back in here from PPG Paints Arena NC State with a three-point lead 37-33 Over Texas Tech let's run down the team numbers first pack shooting 43% from the field hitting 13 of 30 three of eight from three-point range eight of nine for the foul line Texas Tech a great free throw shooting team was four of four overall Red Raiders like NC State just 13 field goals 13 of 32 that's 41% key stat here is Texas tag just three of 14 from three-point range packs got to continue to keep them quiet from long range because they make about nine threes per game turnovers both teams doing a nice job there pack only four Texas Tech three points off turnovers NC State did make them pay on those turnovers leading 8 to2 there total rebounds we pack 19- 17 Edge 55 on offensive boards we'll pack a 9 to8 Advantage Second Chance points but uh Williams hit big three right there at the end of the half off of an offensive rebound bench points NC State of 14-6 edge Ben Middlebrooks has uh almost all of those and points in the paint it's 20 to4 NC State leading there Texas t a 4-3 Edge on Fast Break points I mentioned Middlebrooks had almost all of the bench points he has well he has all of the bench points scored 14 points four of six shooting made all six of his free throws he was fabulous DJ horn he had eight points for the pack two of four from three-point range Michael oconnell scoreless Casey morcel with four Dr 5 point6 rebounds six points for DJ Burns and picked up his second foul with four minutes play in the first half two the point guard who's a really a Smooth Operator with a ball in his hands getting in the pain he finished with 13 points also dished out three assists took a look at Isaac's that's a good defensive job on him pop Isaac's their leading score he had six Williams who hit that three right at the end of the half finish with six as well McMillian with four Washington the big guy we talked about him coming back from the injury just two points four rebounds a couple of fouls and Jennings had two points for Texas Tech so that's where we stand as the two teams come back out on the floor and uh ACC commissioner Jim Phillips stopped by to inform Gary that we're not going to let you retire he was kind of your good luck charm last week cuz you were sitting next to him for aot for a couple of those ACC T IA what what a nice man and uh yeah he just he says we don't want you to retire so we're going to see how long the pack can keep it going here 20 minutes away from uh a chance toh take on Oakland on Saturday Oakland with a big upset of third seat in Kentucky 80 to 76 earlier tonight Oakland knocked down 15 threes against the Kentucky Wildcats and it was their first NCAA round of 64 win and uh they're for real I'll tell you what they play defense and they can obviously hurt you from the perimeter no doubt about that so we'll see what happens pack uh we'll find out in the next 20 minutes who survives in advances is it going to be NC State or the Texas Tech Red Raiders I do like the fact that the pack held Texas Tech to three of 14 shooting from long range in the first half I think if NC State can duplicate that in the second half uh the pack might be advancing yeah but if you're gr McCaslin he's probably thinking uh the opposite that you know what we're only down by four and we hit only made three threes that's a good point but I do think NC State did did a really good job on some of the accents that they uh used to get threes and I think they they hit a couple of threes after offensive rebounds so including the one right there at the end of the half but uh we talked about that in our keys to the game how you know they will get threes off of Tucson's penetration and then he'll kick out three-point Shooters but they'll also get some threes when they get offensive rebounds because when they get that offensive board they're they're looking immediately to spray the ball out to the perimeter instead of going right back up and it and it goes back to them playing small you know they don't have a Mod Dr at six 10 who's going to get the offensive rebound and then he's just going to go right back up there and score so they're playing to their strength they'll get threes after offensive rebounds that's why uh again I go back to I thought defensive rebounding was going to be crucial in this game NC State did win the battle of the boards in the opening half and got to got to really stay with it on those Texas Tech misses well our keys to the game on our extended uh pregame show guard the three-point line hold Texas Tech to one shot limit pop Isaacs and out tough him and match their physicality and the packs been able to do that so far we got 20 minutes to go uh diara comes back out on the floor with Welly original starting lineup for NC State horn okono morcel diara and Burns Burns uh held to just six points he did have two fouls sat the last 417 of the first half after picking up his second foul we'll see if uh Grant McCaslin the first year coach at Texas Tech Mak any substitutions in his original lineup L up he's going to go with pop isacs Darion Williams Joe tucon Kerwin Walton who was shut out in the first half and Robert Jennings so it'll be Jennings that'll have to guard uh Burns to begin the second half pack will get the first possession and it'll be diara inbounding to oconnell and here we go ok Connell just inside the three-point line guarded by Isaac's moves to his left in front of us to Horn jump shot in the air left corner for three got it uh they C of switch Gary on that screen by Burns Jennings had to switch on horn DJ kind of looked him off Jennings backed away and Horn buries it packed by seven Texas Tech ball Williams right wing on top to ISA forces up a straight on three and got it over oconnell that's the scary thing about this guy pop Isaacs yep 40-36 Texas de pulls to within four horn with it behind the arc left wing deep left to Burns Burns against Jennings backs him down backs him down moves into the mid lane area goes to his left bank shot up rims in Burns with a nice touch on a left-handed back shot he's got eight 4236 wack Texas Tech ball tuad drives to his left against Morel now to Isaac's top of the key right wing to Walton back to is Isaac's driving crosscourt skip pass attending for Williams knocked out of bounds by diara 12 on the timer and Texas Tech Will inbound from almost in front of their bench along the far left Sid line as we look at it toide gets the inbounds pass he will drive all the way left of the lane stops gets off balance gives to Williams down to Jennings back to Williams Williams one dribble to his right Fires for three got it D check it a two just inside the arc for Darion Williams just a great shot right there di did a good job of darting around that screen and getting a hand in his face but Williams he he can really shoot it well pack with a 4238 lead and the ball here's okell getting it to Burns left of the Lane Burns backs in against Jennings backs him down backs him down again he drive goes to his left knocks over Jennings Jennings flops third foul on burns he just has a mean look as he looks toward the official and tell you the truth I don't blame him no that call should not made in made in the NCAA tournament just a a total flop right there by Jennings cuz he had no chance to guard him and now middle Brooks is going to come into the game so Burns taken out of this game by an official now whose uh ears are burning he's pointing over towards the NC State bench top break there for NC yeah right that one down 18 minutes 19 seconds to go second half Burns has to sit down with foul number three Texas teken bounds the ball Tucan will bring it up no pressure 4238 willpack and Tucan straight away drives to his left now back right looking for a driving angle has to pick up his dribble now way to Isaac top of the key to Jennings right wing to Tucan left hand dribble drive at the top of the KY up for the jump shot off the back iron no and we'll see if that shot was uh it was very close to the three-point line a two it's going to be a two-point shot and the foul is on Casey Morel that'll be his second team second and will send Tucson to the line for two he's an 86% free throw shooter on the year two for two tonight 4238 wol back first free throw no good off to the right and the big seven-footer now Warren Washington out of Escondido California checks in for the Red Raiders and Robert Jennings the 67 230 lb sophomore leades tcat ready is for his second free throw it's on the way good 14 for Tucan 4239 will pack with the ball in the lead oconnell Taps the top of his head pack going to run a set oconnell between the Rings Isaac's all over him draped like a blanket gives it up to morcel morcel right wing top of the key to Middlebrooks hands off the horn horn drives right elbow gives to di left wing three on the way got it little rolling replace action right there with diara popping up from the Baseline his man was tagging on the uh R man Middlebrooks and diar got a wide open look diar's first three he has got eight points and it's 4539 W pack to son in the midcourt area gives to Isaac's off a Washington screen drives right to the Lane tries to pass into the post ball deflected okell's got it for state to diara left wing to Horn Fires for three in transition off the rim no rebound pulled down by William Middlebrooks almost on his back Williams will drive it Williams to the top of the key still dribbling gives to two side he knifes his way to the basket for the left wing shot up no good follow up Good by Washington Washington gets his second basket 4541 packed by four and with the ball 1646 to go second half here in the NCAA south regional at Pittsburgh Pennsylvania here's oconnell right wing to Horn on top to Middlebrooks Middlebrooks couple of dribbles fakes a hand off to oconnell now he'll hand to horn horn drives into the paint he's double team knocked down there's got to be a foul on this play against Texas Tech it's got to be on tousant or pop isacs and I think they're going to call Isaac's on the foul if so that'll be his second it is on Isaac that's the first team foul in Texas Tech here in the second half 1628 to go 4541 willpack okell inbound Baseline right for NC State oconnell looking looking looking gets it to morcel right Baseline shoots misses and the rebound pulled down by Washington he'll bring it up the floor gets it to Isaac's Isaac's top of the key di drives down the lane pops up a floater and it's blocked Away by Middlebrooks out of bounds in the right [Music] corner middle Brook has swatted that ball and ended up uh deep right corner out of bounds and uh Isaacs will trigger it in in the coffin corner with 21 to shoot ready to check in is Taylor but I don't think they're going to let him n they do let him in and Horn will get a break for the wolf pack 21 of the timer oconnell checks out as well nope oconnell is going to stay in and Isaac gets it to Washington behind the arc right wing the big seven-footer couple of big dribbles now to Tucan Tucan right wi curls to the top of the key down the lane he goes he turns on morcel can't shoot out side to Williams now the corner to McMillan who's in for the first time in the second half McMillan driving step back jumper for two left wing got it and they made some tough ones here to start this second half but they did get the switch they wanted off the screening action Middlebrooks had to switch off on him and gave him a little room so he wouldn't drive by 4543 wol back with a two-point lead 1543 to go NC State ball with oconnell left wing oconnell driving left of the lane double team ball ra away oconnell gets it left Baseline OK Connell left uh block to Middlebrooks he fakes drives around Washington reverse layup good what a move by Ben Middlebrooks 16 points off the bench for Middlebrooks and the packs up by four again 4743 with 1520 to go Middlebrooks a big hero for the pack tonight tant with the ball for Texas Tech 16 to shoot straight away left wing to Williams Williams against diara he'll back him no he doesn't gives it up to ISAC Isaac's top of the key to Williams Williams blows past diara in underneath the Williams ball off his leg out of bounds oh they call it the Texas Tech ball wow boy didn't see that one I didn't see it I don't think the officials saw it now they're going to change it it will be NC State ball officials are recognizing that they had missed one there I was going to give the old Jack Buck call I don't believe what I just saw but I didn't have to do it 4743 timeout the under 16 with 1459 to go pack leads Texas Tech 54 here in the NCAA tournament this is NC State basketball from bfield for the fourth year in a row North Carolina Farm Bureau 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from Pittsburgh Ben Middlebrooks one t night he is having the Clemson transfer five of seven from the field six of six foul shooting 16 points is that a career high Gary yes it is all right there you go and DJ horn the only other player in double figures with 11 Burns has eight but Burns was sent to the bench with his third foul 1819 to play in the game uh kind of a bizarre call on another flop by Robert Jennings so uh Jennings who's under siiz in the post has pulled the old floer on DJ Burns a couple of times tonight and burns has been called for a few fouls we don't play that way in the ACC you man up you're a fiveman and you bump with Burns and you try to stop them you don't just lay out on the floor and hope the officials bail out and they did it they've done it a couple of times here in this game both teams four of six shooting in the second half and both teams well actually the pack two of three from three-point range Texas Tech has made its only three last season there was a big focus on flopping that they were really going to get after and call it I guess they forgot that kind of like three seconds you don't see that called anymore either so now they've forgotten about the Flop all right here we go the pack on the floor with diara horn back in uh Middlebrooks Taylor and morcel pack inbounds out of the timeout leading 4743 just under 15 minutes to play Taylor with a basketball in the midcourt to Horn in front of us sideline left horn double team ball ra away knocked out of bounds went off a two side I saw that one about it was only about 3 ft away from us you almost got it a great double there by Williams on that ball screen he got a trap on DJ horn all of a sudden Horn uh was in some heavy traffic and in trouble almost turned it over Taylor inbounds in front of Tony De horn now to Middle Brooks top of the Key Middle Brooks hands off to Casey morcel morcel right wing he'll drive to the Baseline up for the jump shot too long and the rebound pulled out by chance McMillan McMillan tuat Williams Washington on the floor along with Walton for the Red Raiders here's tcad driving the lane look like he traveled and he got bumped and uh knocked off balance and we've got a wol pack foul it's going to go against Jaden Taylor that's his second teams third and they're going to say that he was in the act of shooting they're going to give him two free throws tucans one of their best free throw shooters Williams at 88% tucon at 86 Isaac at 84 McMillan at 91 they are the best free throw shooters for Texas Tech here's the Tucsan free throw first one up good yeah and he was just trying to get fouled there I mean he got off balance in the lane almost lost the ball but he did draw the contact before he took that extra step because I'm with you I was thinking a travel may be coming but the contact occurred first second free throw good by to side he's got 16 points to lead the Red Raiders and it's 4745 Texas Tech pulls to within two here is DJ horn with a basketball for the wol pack off of Middlebrook screen drives to his left all the way to the baset scoop to the hoop won't go middle Brooks on the follow back up block knock loose ball and a whistle and I think they're going to get Darion Williams on the foul that is his second and that'll be the second team foul on the Red Raiders and they're going to say that Middlebrooks was in the act of shooting so he'll get back to the free throw line he is six of six tonight up goes the shot got it 17 for Middlebrooks he's become a uh toward the end of the season he really has elevated his free throw shooting he was kind of spotty earlier in the season but he's dialed in I mean it it looks like it's going in every time this one's on the way rims off by jinst yeah even after 34 years you still have that magic touch and here's tuat with the ball pack up 4845 1402 to go Walton with it in the midcourt area right wi to McMillan he'll take a dribble Fires for three Way Off the Mark almost missed the works and the rebound comes to Horn for NC State here's horn up the right side horn all the way to the block kicks it out to diara now to morcel morcel guarded by wol morcel left hand dribble to the Elbow down the lane he goes shoots it off balance Runner no good deep rebound comes to oconnell in underneath the Middlebrooks shot up blocked Away by Washington and a foul coming up on the big guy from Escondido California Warren Washington the s footer with his third personal foul third team foul against Texas Tech that'll bring Robert Jennings Off the Bench he'll come in to replace Washington and he's got two fouls so back to the line for two free throws Ben Middlebrooks and Tony I'm going to let you call these made the first one thank you but you don't say anything beforehand okay thank you I will tell you when the official gives him the ball but after that I'm not going to talk about streaks or anything else he does have the ball now okay here's a shot in the air good and see he made it 19 points that's the way you do it old man thanks kid 50 to 45 packed by five 1326 to go here's Williams along the left side line for the Red Raiders guarded by diar who's done a great job on him he backs him down backs him downside of the lane and underneath to Jennings layup good good pass there and that time middle Brooks got caught ball watching turned his head and lost his man Jennings cutting to the basket back by three and with the ball 50 to 47 13 minutes and 4 seconds remaining here's okono bounce pass behind the Arc de horn on top to Middlebrooks one big dribble now he'll hand off to horn horn drives to the right Baseline and underneath the diar layup good horn is drawing so much attention when he puts the ball on the floor now he's doing a good job of playmaking and finding the open man 524 47 willpack Red Raiders with the ball Tucan starts to drive morcel shuts him down now to Walton right wing to Williams Williams drives right Baseline crosscourt skip pass goes to McMillan couple of dribbles he'll fire a 15-footer good from the left Baseline for chance McMillan he's got eight points and it's 5249 three-point wol pack lead NC State ball with 1222 to go oconnell deep right to Casey Morel right wing on top to Middlebrooks couple of dribbles hands off to horn horn can't drive now he'll knock over to side offensive foul on DJ horn and we're not going to argue with that one that's the first on horn fourth on the team and the Red Raiders will get the basketball with 1211 to go 5249 wol pack and coming back in the game pop Isaac's now for kwin Walton who's been shut out in this game no points and now what well DJ horn a little frustrated now because they're doing a they're kind of selling out to stop him and we're going to get a timeout called and it'll be a full timeout I think it's an NC State called timeout but it'll be a full 1211 left here in the second half with a score NC State 52 Texas Tech 49 you're listening to NCAA tournament basketball on 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timeout DJ horn was called friend offensive foul hard contact he had the ball in his hands and Joe Tucan who was guarding him very closely hit the deck and the officials went over to take a look at the monitor to see if there might be a flagrant one involved but I don't think uh they have elevated this call so it will just be a foul on uh DJ horn and for DJ horn in this game that's his first foul so NC State clinging to a three-point lead here 5249 it has been close throughout we have had nine lead changes three ties both teams shooting well second half the will pack five out of 10 the Red Raiders 6 out of nine Raiders basketball out of the timeout Williams has it behind the arc right wing against the packs manto man now to McMillan at the point and horns all over him now to Jennings top of the key the big guy will drive on Middlebrooks all the way to the left of the lane he'll stop he'll send it deep left to Tucson eight to shoot tar starts to drive knocks over Ben Middlebrooks and is out of control and a whistle call horn I think well I think they're going to call hold on a minute moreell maybe see I thought I thought they s signal 12 yeah oconnell you're right it's on oconnell but that could have been an offensive foul very easily on Jo Tuan so that's the third fourth team foul on the will pack Texas Tech inbounds Baseline left they get it to Isaac's now to Jenkins hand back to Isaac's behind the arc left wing to Tada at the point left wing deep to Isaac's 11 to shoot Isaac's against oconnell he wants the drive sends it right wing to Williams shot in the air for three long no good and oconnell has got the rebound running two on two oconnell doesn't like the lay of the land waits for his teammates now he drives toward the right corner back left again he'll get it to morsel left wing to horn horn drives left Baseline shoots a floater good and a foul I think they're going to get Jennings or McMillan let's see be Jennings I think it is going to be against Jennings you're right Tony that's his third that's the fourth team foul on Texas Tech count the basket for DJ horn he's got 13 points now and an n one free throw coming up Washington the seven-footer now comes in for Robert Jennings for Texas Tech he's the rim protector for the Red Raiders here's the N1 free throw now for DJ horn it's on the way good 14 points for horn 19 for Ben Middlebrooks they're the leading scores for the pack modara has 10 5549 NC State leading here in Pittsburgh Red Raider basketball with 11 minutes to go here's Washington the Isaac's long three right of the key off the back iron no morcel with a deep rebound out lets it to okell to diara jams it on The Fast Break wow what a beautiful pass by Michael okono in transition and it looks like Texas Tech is going to call a timeout as NC state has gone on a little bit of spurt the pack has made its last three shots a transition dunk there and a beautiful find by Michael okono P by eight its largest lead of the game 5749 with 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straight games which was remarkable considering in 31 regular season games he had reached double figures only three times well tonight he hasn't scored but he's still playing winning basketball at that last assist to diara gave Michael okano his fifth assist he also has three rebounds and I tell you again mod diara his development along the way is just astounding you know he started the season he was kind of clumsy you wonder if he had good hands but now running the Middle Lane in transition Michael okono had enough confidence to throw that tough bounce pass to Dr and he handled it beautifully and he dunked it forcing a Texas Tech timeout so NC State now up by eight and here come the Red Raiders is trying to chop into that lead horn Morel diara Middlebrooks and oconnell on the floor for NC State McMillan will trigger it in against a little bit of backourt pressure by NC State pack does not try to trap and Williams with the inbounds gets it to tcat who's back in at the point tcat driving to his left gets it away to the big guy Washington behind the arc left wing and middle Brooks all over him now to tant with 14 to shoot Tucan straightaway pass into the corner picked on off by horn pass ahead to Morel fast break layup [Music] good six for Morel Steel by horn 5949 pack leads by 10 it's biggest lead of the game 1023 to go here's tcad gets it away to Williams right wing to Isaac Isaac driving left elbow down low to Washington kicks it in the corner to McMillan outside to tcat drives now right-winged Isaac shot in the air for three no good ball tapped and out of bounds right corner Isaac's having a tough night he's what three for 13 now nine points packs done a great job on him and Texas Tech what now four out of 19 from the three-point Arc so those are two huge Keys Williams Den Bound in the right corner gets it to Isaac Isaac steps back forces a three no good again tip by Washington no good but I think he came over the back of somebody to do it let's see y uh foul on DJ Horn of NC State that'll be his second and the team's fifth check it sixth NC State Force 2 Isaac misses that time it could not grab the defensive rebound so a reset here for Texas Tech Texas Tech lobs it on the inbounds to Washington to hit the rim and bounces out to two side he's got it for Texas Tech right wing to McMillan McMillan drives to the top of the key crossover dribble rightwing dox right of the lane to Washington against Middlebrooks backs him down backs him down turns goes to the bucket fires it up wild shot loose ball and Washington tries to save her check at Williams tries to save it inbounds one over the top of the Red Raider Bench ball out of bounds it'll belong to NC State wow I tell you what you got to tip your cap though for the Hustle by Darion Williams he did everything he could to save that ball Here Comes DJ Burns in for Middlebrooks and the pack fans give Middlebrooks a standing ovation and they should a career-high 19 points tonight here in Pittsburgh with a pack up by 10 941 remaining NC State basketball oconnell with it just inside the timeline right wing to Casey Morel to Burns Burns out back to oconnell repost to Burns right of the lane back to okono back to Burns on a repost Burns curls a running Hook is up good from left of the lane for DJ Burns he's got 10 and it's 6149 916 to go long time left in this game and if Texas Tech gets hot from three look out 18 to shoot tant with it deep right gets Casey Morel Tucan he fakes he starts to drive Morel shuts him down nice defense now to Isaac against okell okell gets picked off Isaac goes down the lane lobs for Washington Jabs it and that ends a 90 run by NC State after the pack had built that lead out to 12 little pick and roll that time once Burns kind of stepped up to help off of ISX who got in the paint Washington rolling to the bucket and right there for the Run uh front of the rim lob McMillan checks out and Kerwin Walton is back in for a Texas Tech tackle inbound leading 6151 10-point wolp pack lead 843 to go Michael oconnell for the wol pack has it at the point swings it right side to morcel morcel to Burns deep right wing against Washington Burns faces up now backs him down backs him down spins past in mid lane pumps it up just threw it up because he knew he was going to get hammered and did and the foul on seven-footer Warren Washington is his fourth that's the 15 foul now on Texas Tech so Burns going to the line for two free throws he's not been there tonight Gary pack shooting 64% from the field here in the second half wow well that's winning basketball and burns with two free throws coming here the ACC tournament MVP the we case Award winner knocks down the first of two he's got 11 points Washington checks out with his fourth foul and Jennings comes back in Robert Jennings for the Red Raiders Burns ready for a second free throw it's on the way good 6351 packed by 12 now with 828 to go it's largest lead of the game Tucan lets the ball roll toward the foul line picks it up clock starts to move we're down to 824 to go Tucan top of the key drives down the lane throws up a Wild Runner missed it ball out of bounds who touched it last nobody Tuan so it'll belong to NC State Texas Tech really struggling now the pack has tightened up the defense Red Raiders have missed six of their last seven shots and here is oconnell for NC stay at the point out by the timeline Isaac's on him whips a baseball pass right wing to Morel right of the lane to Burns Burns backs in against Jenny backs him down he curls sends it out to oconnell now the morel to Horn in the left corner the bigger Williams is on him horn starts to drive he's double team he's in trouble throws it it's intercepted at the point by Isaac's head man pass to Tucsan all the way to the basket goes Tucan shot blocked by diara out of bounds from behind to save a fast break basket right there 2 five on the timer for Texas Tech 748 to play in the game and we have a timeout here at 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learfield well coming into the game NC State felt like it had an advantage at the center position the Five Spot you know we didn't know if Warren Washington the seven-footer for Texas Tech was going to play and missed nine games with a foot injury next in line for them was 67 Robert Jennings obviously under siiz at major college basketball to be playing the center position at 67 and boy has NC State gone after those guys tonight middle Brooks has a career high 19 B has 12 so the pack with those two excuse me those two have combined for 31 points at the center position for NC State and then you throw in MO diara at the four he has 12 points and seven rebounds so The Bigs have really gotten it done for the pack in uh for the pack in this one Texas Tech to inbound out of the timeout Baseline left with Williams pack on a 16-6 run over about the last 7 7 and 1/2 minutes they go up 6351 74 eight to go inbounds pass comes to tcat at the point tousant looking he'll give it away to Jennings back to tousant left wing he'll drive to the top of the key bounces it left of the lane to Jennings against Burns he tries a crosscourt pass to Isaac can't hang on loose ball picked up by Burns and that is now eight turnovers for the Red Raiders pack with a basketball 20 to shoot with oconnell out near the timeline straight away guarded by Isaac's now to diara Behind The Arc left wing Williams is on him 13 to shoot now to Burns right of the link kicks it back to okell back to Burns spins around at Jennings here comes tucon over to double Burns and we've got a whistle b and a hell ball and the uh arrow is pointing toward the Red Raiders so that's a turnover for the wol pack NC State with eight turnovers in the game for this half pack shooting second half nine out of 14 63% and the Red Raiders 44% 7 of 16 but just one out of six from three the pack two out of three from long range so here we go Red Raiders inbound and tucans is going to let the ball roll until it gets near midcourt he going to pick it up and the clock starts to move left wing to Williams Williams with the basketball gives to ISAC he'll pop from long range no good again and the Deep rebound comes to oconnell going two on two oconnell the basket fast break lamp rolls off the rim and the rebound to Texas Tech tuak coming the other way left wing to Isaac tries to get into the paint runs right in to Ben Middlebrooks who clamps onto the ball and we've got a hell ball and it's going now to NC State's way on the alternate possession as Burns will check back in for Middlebrooks he gets another big hand by the NC State faithful Now Kevin Keat starting to go with the offense defense substitutions when he can and that turnover by Texas Tech allowed going to get Burns back out there and I'm sure they're going to get it to him still 6351 nobody scored in more than a minute as o Connell has it now to the midcourt area to Morel free throw line to Burns drives the lane running one hander good by Burns 14 for Burns and it's 6551 packed by 14 633 to go let's see if NC State can get a stop here Tucan wants to drive on oconnell just holding the ball in the midcourt area now drive to his left now back right again off of Jennings screen down the lane he goes he's out of control in underneath the Jennings he fires it up for the left block off the glass no and a foul is going to be whistled on DJ Burns that's his fourth and it comes with 67 to go so I think Ben Middlebrooks is going to come right off the bench again no he was and Coach KS grabbed him and pulled him back because NC State's going on offense after these free throws here here's Jennings at the line for two first one rattles in Jennings a 74% free throw shooter that's his first foul shot tonight in this game Jennings second free throw on the way it's good six points for Robert Jennings that's better in his 4 and a half point average 6553 willpack pressing is uh uh the Red Raiders here's oconnell throwing a midcourt pass to Casey morcel he battles to with it ball out of bounds they Collide tant and Morel they go down and let's see who the foul is on tant tousant with his second team Sixth and the pack will inbound the ball from near the scores table in fact right at midcourt in front of the scores table 612 to play 6553 NC State leads Texas Tech here in the NCAA south regional Pittsburgh nice to have you with us Burns has four let's see if Jennings tries to flop on him again to get him out of the game oconnell with the ball gets it to morsel top of the KY looking for burns beats it left wing to diara now to Burns left of the lane with 17 to shoot against Jennings backs him down backs him down spins around him and Jennings holds him and then Burns goes down that's hard to no knock Burns off his pins but Jennings did that's Jennings fourth foul team seven and burns is either going to get to the front end of the one and one here or they're going to give him two shots and sa was in the act of shooting it should be two shots for him so I'm sure Ben Middlebrooks will be at the scores table as Burns gets set to shoot the second one see if they can make that offensive defensive substitution again first free throw on the way too long for burns he's upset with himself he's got 14 points tonight but he's playing with four fouls got at the fourth with 617 to go we're down with 554 remaining 6553 NC State burn second free throw on the way it's no good off to the right so the pack can't get middle Brooks in to S with a rebound long down the floorida Williams spots up three on the way in transition off the rim no rebounded by diara for NC State now to Horn up the floor to oconnell and he'll slow it up let's see if the pack choose some clock here with 538 to go here's a pass oconnell trying to get it to Horn along the sideline kicked by two Sid shot clock will reset the 20 Burns checks out middle Brooks back in for the woolpack and here comes Pop Isaac who's had a tough shooting night in for Texas Tech that was one of our keys to control him so far the pack has and Texas Tech going small as Jennings checks out here's oconnell to trigger it in right Sid line to Horn straight away horn off of middle Brook screen drives to his left the bigger Williams is on him he steps back three on the way off the back iron no Dr rebounds at the foul line we got a foul it's either on Walton or Williams got to be one of the two and it's going to go against Darion Williams that'll be his third team's eighth and modar at the line for the front end of the one of1 and that was his ninth rebound so he's just one board away from another double double he's got 12 and N tonight MO is one out of one from the line tonight here's the free throw good and he'll get the bonus 13 points for Mohamad diara the Missouri transfer who has really come on you can go back toward the end of the regular season he started to turn it on in the ACC tournament he was a monster now time out Texas Tech Tony this will be a 30 second timeout and Texas Tech has only one so you wonder now what anant McCaslin has up his sleeve he's gone extremely small here now they say it's going to be a full timeout so we'll take it too all right 526 to go we're heading down the stretch in the steel city with a score NC State 66 Texas Tech 53 from Pittsburgh you're listening to NCAA tournament basketball in the wol pack Sports network from [Music] learfield and we're back with the action Coke Zero sugar might be the best Coke ever that's right Jim with an irresistible taste and zero sugar Coke Zero sugar is a must try for any sports fan so make sure you wait Jim I didn't mean try it right now we're still on the air best Coke ever take a taste Jen really no not right now Jen we got a game to call do you hear that that is the sound of BMW performance without a single piston or cylinder a generation of all electric vehicles designed and built like no other the BMW i i7 and I4 revolutionize every drive into a thrilling opportunity to feel the pure Rush of BMW 100% electric but isn't that what you'd expect from the ultimate electric driving machine visit triangle BMW dealers.com today for exceptional offers on the BMW electrified flea 526 to play NC State up on Texas Tech 6653 Mo diara made the front end of a one and one and now he's going to try to finish it off and it's interesting for Kevin Keats now though because Texas Tech has gone really small they don't they don't have either Washington or Jennings out there basically five perimeter players here's the free throw missed yep he missed the back end of the one ofone Williams rebounds gives to two side here come the Red Raiders Tucson off a high screen gives to Williams right wing into the corner to pop Isaac's back to Williams on the give and go cross courts get past to Walt three ball on the way good from the left side that's a first basket of the game for Kerwin Walton and it makes it 6656 Red Raiders pulled it within 10 with exactly 5 minutes remaining here in Pittsburgh Middlebrooks top of the KE drives hands off to horn horn looking for a driving lane can't right wing to diar drives all the way to the Baseline now backs in against Walton left of the lane he turns to his right up and under goes the passet scores that's what I was talking about they're really small on defense now and diara just backed his way in on the smaller Walt 6856 packed by 12 Red Raider ball here's Walton off a pass from Williams Fires for three missed the works and the rebound comes right into the arms of DJ horn for the pack 6856 W pack 428 to go now coach mccassen telling his team to switch everything because they basically have five guards out there oconnell deep left way to Horn behind the arc left wing drives to the left Baseline he's double teamed has to get rid of it he's in trouble now away to oconnell mid lane to Middlebrooks Middlebrooks turns to the basket layup good Ben Middlebrooks is having a heck of a night 21 points for him pack lead 70 to 56 Red Raider ball with four minutes to go Isaac behind the back pass to Williams back to Isaac pump fakes now he'll drive into the mid lane area throws up a runner missed it morcel will get the foul Casey morcel for the pack has his third personal that's the team seven Isaac will be going to the line for two free throws when we come back to PPG Paints arena in Pittsburgh 352 to go will the pack survive in advance NC State 70 Texas Tech 56 this is W Pack basketball in the NCAA tournament from learfield Harris terer is proud to assist its customers and communities every day with their food and Pharmacy needs this season Harris Teeters partnered with NC State Duke UNCC and Wake Forest to present the big four grocery assist promotion each week one lucky fan has chosen to win $5 in free groceries for every assist by each big four school that week Harris Teeter will also donate $10 for every assist throughout the season to each school's local food bank to support those in need visit harristeeter.com and look 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here's why it's the bigs going to work for the pack Middlebrooks a career-high 21 diara 15 points9 rebounds Burns he has 14 points so that threesome the three big guys the front line players for NC State have been really hard to handle for Texas Tech and Grant mclin quite frankly has really gone to a desperate lineup here with basically five guards he's got Isaac's tant Williams McMillan and Walton again they're all perimeter players Williams is 66 he would be considered the biggest of The Bigs in in that particular lineup now it can be very difficult to guard when especially if you got two bigs out there like NC State does right now with Burns and and diara uh but here NC State doesn't have to go on defense cuz pop ISAC is at the free throw line to shoot a pair with NC State up by 14 again less than four minutes to play Pack's done a great job on him he averages almost 16 points a game he misses the free throw he's only got nine in this game he's three out of 14 shooting one out of eight from long range and he just missed his first free throw of the night after making two here's the second one good and they'll set up the press and he State's going to have to be smart and be strong with the ball here horn gets it they're going to trap him in the corner he throws ahead to Taylor and Taylor breaks the Press Jaden Taylor driving down the lane underneath the burns layup good 16 for Burns Red Raiders get the ball quickly into the front court with tcad right wing tcad driving top of the KY outside of McMillan long NBA three no good rebounded by Walton on the right block passes inside of the cutting McMillan misses the layup and the rebound pulled down by diara was 10th wow Burns has hit his last seven shots diara has last five Middlebrooks has last two th that's how dominant those pigs have been for NC State stats courtesy of Howard bomb here's a pass Burns horns shoots a three ball no good off a pass from Burns Isaac gets it drives all the way down to the left block area or the left elbow area where he crashes into oconnell oconnell is charged with a block blocking foul the foul on oconnell will be his second that'll be the E team foul on NC State so Isaac's uh back to the line for the front end of the one and one 7257 NC State 305 remaining I'll tell you what DJ horn missed the shot on the other end but it was a great play by Burns here's a free throw good by ISAC he'll get the back end of the one and one flip horn flipped the ball in the low post to Burns and burns knowing that that Texas Tech got the small lineup they had to trap him immediately so he quickly kicked it right back out to Horn who missed the shot but Isaac makes two here and it's 7259 here's diara bumped just as he got the ball across midcourt by Williams Williams commits his fourth foul that's the ninth team foul now on Texas Tech so it'll be diara back to the line for the front end of the one of one diara with a double double tonight got got 15 points and I'm not sure Tony you got the stat monitor FR of you how many rebounds has he pulled down 10 so another double double we've almost come to expect it here's the front end of the one of1 for modara he rattles it [Music] in and it's 7359 258 to go pack up by 14 points that's equal NC State's largest lead tonight di second free throw on the way Swit I think Kevin keeps telling his guys 55 which I believe means switch everything now trying to prevent Texas Tech from shooting threes Tu side goes to his right he'll pop for three off the back iron no rebounded by Jaden Taylor way up there in the ozone to grab that rebound and he gets it away to oconnell let's see if the pack tries to chew some clock here with 242 to go up 7459 oconnell to Middlebrooks between the Rings middle Brooks couple of dribbles hands off to Horn they double team him and they call horn for traveling when Isaac and Williams were pushing him off balance well they've been looking to double him all night with Williams so Williams guarding Middlebrooks on the dribble handoff right there and immediately doubled DJ horn not sure it was a travel probably a foul that's the ninth turnover on NC [Music] State and here we go Isaac gets the inbounds pass brings it in the front Court to Tucan back to Isaac's left corner jumper for three short and the rebound comes to Walton he'll clear it out to two side he'll shoot a straight on three no good off to the left and the rebound comes to modara and he'll give it away to DJ horn 215 left to go 7459 willpack NC State ball here's horn along the right sideline and pop Isaac's popped him pretty good and commits his third personal foul that's the 10th team fou foul now on the Red Raiders so two free throws coming up now for DJ horn DJ's one out of one from the strip he's got 14 points tonight which is under his 17 point per game average or 16.9 to be exact first free throw on the way good live by the three di by the three and it's death for Texas Tech tonight two for 13 here in the second half overall three-point shooting for the Raiders 5 at 27 DJ horn studies for his second free throw he hits it now Horn's going to check out casy Morel coming in for defense you got Taylor Morel diara middle Brooks and okon in there right now for NC State pop Isaac gets the inbounds pass 208 to go in the game pack up 7659 here's Isaac driving to his left now back right again gets it to Walton back to is straight away straight line drive toward the basket sends it to Williams right Baseline jumper for two got it about a 17-footer for Isaac's time out Texas Tech Isaac there check that Williams now with the 10 points as he got that uh Baseline jumper from the right side 7661 pack leads by 15 with 153 to go well Texas Tech has missed some open shots here in the second half but overall NC st's ability to score inside and out is the difference in this game Texas Tech has had no interior presence hardly at all offensively and when they do score in the paint it's off the drive because uh you know Washington and Jennings give them nothing offensively at the center position whereas you flip the script on the other side you see Middlebrooks with 21 and burns with 16 so uh do the math right there the the the pack getting 37 points from its two centers whereas you look at Texas Tech Washington has six and Jennings 12 so how about that by the comparison NC State Centers are combined for 36 points Texas Tex 12 tackle inbound Against full court pressure by the Red Raiders ball goes into Taylor he throws it crosscourt to horn horn he senses the double and gets it across the timeline to oconnell oconnell with the basketball now a horn the packs just going to try to kill as much clock as possible horn and oconnell play pitch and catch with it near the timeline oconnell with a ball guarded by williams8 to shoot 131 to play here's oconnell driving for to shoot now to diara diara free throw line turns Fires at the shot clock he misses it the shot clock was about to expire rebound Williams for Texas Tech up the floor to pop Isaac is right wing to Walton Fires for three got it his second three of the game Texas Tech now just four of its last 18 shooting pack inbounds Against full court pressure down goes horn along the left sideline and down goes Isaac's and we've got a whistle horn was called for a travel as he stumbled so that'll be a turnover for NC State packs got to stay with it here cuz this this is a team Texas Tech can fill it up from three-point range they have done it tonight yet 105 to go 7664 wolp Isaac gets the ball in the back court brings it across shoots a 30-footer straight on no good deep rebound comes to Walton Walton to McMillan McMillan drives right to the Lane now to Walton three on the way right of the key good again Walton's heating up that's three threes for him in this half and it's 7667 52.3 seconds remaining NC State with the ball on the lead ball goes to Horn now to oconnell they break the press down the floorida diara back to oconnell in front of us sideline left now to Morel and he's fouled by Walton in the midcourt area Walton picks up his third that's the 11 team foul two free throws coming up now for Casey Morel we mentioned Texas Tech's ability to or proclivity to make threes after offensive rebounds they did it again with Walton grabbing that offensive board a long rebound and he hit that three to make it a three possession game so big free throws for morcel here he takes a couple of dribbles studies fires it up good seven points for Casey Morel and the pack lead 7767 10-point lead with 43.3 seconds left to go morcel Ready's for his second free throw he eyes it fires it up good Bron pass coming in for horn and Horn with 16 points tonight 7867 wol pack 43.3 seconds left Isaac picks up the ball at midcourt shovels at the two sign along the left sideline Taylor reaches and ties him up held Ball but Texas T will get the ball on the AL The Possession now two SIDS throwing elbows here he's going to keep the ball last I I guess that's what happens when you're trailing 7867 you got to win something Casey Morel did good job pulling Jaden Taylor away there too you don't want to with this kind of lead you don't want to go any further with that and get a technical foul or somebody get thrown out for the next game toel inbound sideline left 39 seconds remaining he gets it to one Paul picked off by Brion pass pass on a breakaway Jamon 80-67 Brion pass puts the uh icing on the cake right there with that fast break Jam here's two side coming the other way forces up a three left wing no good diara fights for the rebound he's got it for NC State now way to oconnell up the floor to Taylor 23 seconds left and the pack can just dribble out the clock Texas Tech is not going to play any more defense and Taylor right in front of us is just going to hold the ball as the clock ticks down he picked up his dribble he may have to uh hand it away to somebody else nope he's just going to hang on to it for the final three two one there's the Hornets all over and the pack wins survives and advances here in round one of the NCAA south regional in Pittsburgh the pack gets its first NCAA tournament win exactly N9 years to the day from the last one in this building when the pack beat Villanova to go to the Sweet 16 the packs winning streak now six in a row five at the ACC tournament and now the pack one out of one here in the NCAA tournament final score NC State 80 and the Red Raiders of Texas Tech 67 the pack improves to 23 and 14 the Red Raiders season will end at 23 and 11 pack LED by four at the [Music] break right now Gary Han and Tony Haynes have lost connection we will get to them as soon as possible Z Bin's back inside the lead for Network Studios NC State defeats Texas Tech and advances to the round to 32 where they will take on Oakland NC State wins at 8267 we'll have post game coverage coming up next you're listening to NC State basketball in the NCAA tournament from learfield eBay 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