RALEIGH — Injured guard Lorenzo Brown is unlikely to play in Saturday's game against first-place Miami, N.C. State coach Mark Gottfried said at his press conference on Friday.

Brown sprained his left ankle in Tuesday's loss at Virginia and has been in a walking boot since and has not practiced. Gottfried didn't rule Brown out for the Miami game but he didn't sound optimistic about his chances of playing, either.

"The probability, in my mind, for him to be recovered enough to cut and move and sprint and jump is pretty slim," Gottfried said. "We have to prepare as if he's not going to play and then we'll go from there."

Junior guard Lorenzo Brown wore a walking boot on his left foot to class on Wednesday, N.C. State coach Mark Gottfried said on his weekly radio show, and his status for Saturday's game with Miami is still up in the air.

Brown, who sprained his left ankle in the first half of Tuesday's loss at Virginia, received treatment from team trainer Ryan Holleman on Wednesday, according to Gottfried, who sounded pessimistic about Brown's status for the Wolfpack's next game.

"He was limping pretty good today, which was not a good sign," Gottfried said on his radio show. "But we're just going to work with him around the clock."

Three Points from N.C. State's 58-55 loss at Virginia:

1) Margin of error

N.C. State's rotation in ACC play has consisted of six players with only freshman forward T.J. Warren averaging more than 5.8 minutes off the bench.

Coach Mark Gottfried is more comfortable with fewer moving parts and clearly defined roles. He relied on a seven-man rotation last season and he has had success with that formula. When Gottfried was an assistant coach at UCLA for Jim Harrick, the Bruins won the national title in 1995 with a seven-man rotation.

It's a ride-or-die mentality and when an injury or foul trouble happens, the results are predictable. When you use only six players, not matter how good those six are, there's no margin of error.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — N.C. State expected to play Tuesday's game at Virginia without a completely healthy C.J. Leslie.

The Wolfpack didn't expect to lose Lorenzo Brown midway through the first half.

Joe Harris scored 22 points to lead Virginia to a 58-55 win on Tuesday, handing No. 19 N.C. State its third straight road loss.

In addition to being for a good cause, these Infiniti Coaches' Charity Challenge commercials are actually pretty funny.

This one stars N.C. State coach Mark Gottfried and UNC's Roy Williams, and the voiceover is done by Duke's Mike Krzyzewski.

And unless, there was some serious high-tech editing (which is possible), it also appears that Gottfried and Williams actually got together to film the commercial (unlike the old "Guitar Hero" ad with Krzyzewski and Williams.)

There's more information on the Coaches' Charity Challenge at this web site.

Three Points from N.C. State's 91-83 win over North Carolina:

1) Lorenzo Brown is the best player in the ACC

Brown put on a clinic with 20 points and 11 assists against the Tar Heels. Through seven ACC games, the junior point guard averages 14.7 points, 8.7 assists and has made 53.8 percent of his 3-pointers.

Brown's outside shot had been a weakness before conference play, making just 6 of his first 24 3-pointers this season, but he has made 7 of 13 in league play, including both of his 3s on Saturday.

RALEIGH — N.C. State's marketing campaign proclaims, "This is our State."

After Saturday's six-years-in-the-making win over North Carolina, it's at least the Wolfpack's Triangle. N.C. State handled the Tar Heels 91-83 in front of an electric, sold out crowd at PNC Arena.

With 20 points and 11 assists from junior guard Lorenzo Brown, No. 18 N.C. State ended a 13-game losing streak to the Tar Heels (13-6, 3-3 ACC), who had entered the game with 19 wins in 20 games in the series under coach Roy Williams.

N.C. State coach Mark Gottfried said he has talked to freshman forward T.J. Warren about the Twitter kerfuffle from earlier in the week and the two have moved on.

Former N.C. State player Thomas de Thaey was critical of Gottfried after Tuesday's 86-84 loss at Wake Forest.

"That's what happens when you're a great recruiter, but terrible coach!" de Thaey wrote on his Twitter account on Wednesday morning.

N.C. State has lost 13 straight to North Carolina and 19 of 20 since coach Roy Williams replaced Matt Doherty in 2003.

For most of Williams' first nine seasons, UNC's wins have not been close, with the notable exception of the first game — a two-point UNC win in Chapel Hill — and the last one — a two-point UNC win in Atlanta in the ACC tournament.

Only five of the 19 losses have been by single digits, compared nine by 14 points or more. The average margin of victory for UNC in the 19 games is 13.2 points.

RALEIGH — N.C. State's loss at Wake Forest on Tuesday and defensive meltdown in the second half prompted a team meeting on Thursday.

Junior guard Lorenzo Brown did not provide too many details about the meeting other than the "nonsense" of the past three games — a loss at Maryland, a close home win over Clemson and the loss at Wake Forest — was addressed.

"There's been a lot of nonsense going on between us but we're all grown men," Brown said. "We sat down and talked it out. We're perfectly fine now."