DJ Burns Jr. had a season-high 29 points as the No. 11 seed Wolfpack won its ninth in a row with a 76-64 victory over the fourth-seeded Blue Devils.
No. 11 seed North Carolina State advanced to the Final Four with a win over No. 4 seed Duke. DALLAS — A postseason run filled with storybook moments for the North Carolina State men’s basketball team will have at least one more chapter. The 11th-seeded Wolfpack made certain of that in a 76-64 win over No. 4 seed Duke on Sunday night in the NCAA tournament’s South Region final at American Airlines Center.
This season’s Wolfpack is piecing together a similar story. N.C. State has more losses than any other team to reach the national semifinals but will enter the season’s final weekend as a winner of nine in a row thanks in large part to Burns, the South Region’s most outstanding player. On Sunday, he had a season-high 29 points on 13-for-19 shooting; N.C. State shot 73.1 percent in the second half.Freshman guard Jared McCain led the Blue Devils with 32 points but shot 8 for 20.
The N.C. State faithful got on their feet and offered chants of “Wolfpack! Wolfpack! Wolfpack!” shortly after an 8-2 burst opened a 48-40 lead with a little over eight minutes left. Burns had a pair of close-in turnaround jumpers, and Horne added a jumper from steps inside the three-point arc. The Blue Devils were making their 24th appearance in a region final, the third most of all time, but their first under Coach Jon Scheyer, a captain on the Blue Devils’ 2010 national championship team who took over in 2022 for Hall of Famer Mike Krzyzewski. A seventh trip to the Elite Eight and a first since 1986 for the Wolfpack appeared a pipe dream after it dropped its final four games of the regular season. But N.C.
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