RALEIGH — N.C. State got an expected 23 points from Tracy Smith and an unexpected 16 from C.J. Williams in a 90-69 romp of Wake Forest on Saturday afternoon at the RBC Center.
It's the first time State has scored 90 points in an ACC game under fifth-year coach Sidney Lowe, who starts the ACC schedule at 1-0 for the first time.
RALEIGH - If Saturday was Russell Wilson’s last home game as N.C. State’s quarterback, he left Carter-Finley Stadium in style.
Wilson, a junior, was honored on senior day because he hasn’t announced whether he is returning for his senior season. Then he passed for two touchdowns and ran for two more in N.C. State’s 38-3 dismantling of Wake Forest.
N.C. State's football game with Wake Forest on Saturday will be broadcast by Time Warner Cable on digital channel No. 520.
The game kicks off at 2 p.m. and will also be broadcast online at ESPN3.com.
CARY – Entering this week’s ACC women’s soccer tournament, North Carolina had made every final since the league started the event in 1988.
Not this time.
It took a gutsy 1-1 (5-4) shootout victory by Wake Forest at WakeMed Stadium on Friday to snap that 22-year streak.
CHARLOTTE - The media that cover the ACC picked Duke to finish atop the conference, but the vote wasn't unanimous.
Duke received 61 of a possible 62 first-place votes in the annual preseason poll, which was released this afternoon at the ACC's operation basketball event. North Carolina, which was picked third overall in the poll, received the other first-place vote.
It wasn't immediately clear which media member selected the Tar Heels No. 1.
Virginia Tech was picked No. 2, and N.C. State was No. 4.
CHARLOTTE -- Jeff Bzdelik hasn’t been at Wake Forest very long, but he has made one big change to the way the Demon Deacons play already. In addition to abandoning Dino Gaudio’s pack-line defense in favor of a more aggressive, attacking scheme, he has moved sophomore C.J. Harris from shooting guard to point guard in the wake of Ish Smith’s departure.
As a freshman, Harris was one of the ACC’s biggest surprises, averaging 9.9 points in almost 28 minutes per game while giving the Deacons a consistent outside shooting threat. He didn’t have to handle the ball much with Smith on the court, so the new role puts Harris in somewhat uncharted waters.
Georgia Tech rallied from behind twice in the fourth quarter Saturday night to escape with a 24-20 victory over Wake Forest at BB&T Field.
Georgia Tech quarterback Josh Nesbitt threw a nine-yard touchdown pass to Correy Earls with 15 seconds remaining to cap the Yellow Jackets’ comeback victory.
Wake Forest has agreed to play home and away in football with Notre Dame, according to a Wake Forest news release.
Notre Dame will visit Wake Forest on Nov. 5, 2011. Wake Forest will travel to Notre Dame on Nov. 7, 2015.
The teams previously had agreed to a game at Notre Dame on Nov. 17, 2012. The new, two-game agreement is separate from that previous agreement.
“This is an excellent opportunity for our football program to compete against one of the most-storied football programs in the nation,” Wake Forest athletic director Ron Wellman said in a statement released by the school. “Notre Dame has long been recognized for its excellence both academically and athletically and we expect that our fans will thoroughly enjoy having the Fighting Irish come to BB&T Field.”
N.C. State's home football game against Boston College will begin at noon on Oct. 9 and will be televised by the ACC Network, the ACC announced this morning.
Also on Oct. 9, North Carolina's home game against Clemson will start at 3:30 p.m. and will be carried by ABC regionally and ESPN nationally.
Wake Forest's home game against Navy will begin at 6:30 p.m.
Michigan State: Mark Dantonio looks like Brooklyn Decker after his fake field goal call in overtime netted the Spartans a 34-31 win over Notre Dame.
