Women’s Basketball Back on Road to Play Boston College

RALEIGH – NC State will head back on the road, this time to face Boston College at Conte Forum on Thursday, Jan. 29 at 6 p.m. The game will be broadcast on ACC Network.

ABOUT NC STATE

NC State has started the ACC season 7-2 and is third place in the league standings halfway through play

The Wolfpack played its second consecutive overtime game, first time since 2017, and came out with a different outcome with a 78-76 win at Virginia

NC State will look for its third straight road ACC win, as the Pack travels north to play Boston College

NC State is No. 25 in the NET with two Quad 1 wins and four quad 2 wins

With one of the toughest schedules in the country, NC State has the best average opponent NET ranking (70), which leads the country by nine, and has the fifth best NET SOS. NC State also has the third best WAB (wins above the bubble) mark in the ACC at 3.21

Khamil Pierre leads the team in scoring (16.3) on 53.5 percent shooting (145-271) and rebounding (11.7), while also leading the league in defensive rebounds (8.3). She is sixth in the country in rebounding and eighth in double-doubles in the NCAA (12)

Zoe Brooks paces the Pack with 4.7 assists per game and bumped up her scoring average by 1.2 points per game to now average 15.8 points per game

Zamareya Jones has a team’s best 1.2 steals per game and a team’s most 43 3-pointers, while also averaging 14.6 points per game

Tilda Trygger paces the Pack with 1.5 blocks per game and is tied with Pierre for a team’s best field goal percentage a .535 (83-155), averaging 11.5 points per game

Three different Pack players rank in the top 25 in scoring in the ACC with Pierre (4th – 16.3), Brooks (8th – 15.8) and Jones (12th – 14.6), and two rank in the top 10 in rebounding with Pierre (1st – 11.7) and Trygger (9th – 8.3)

NC State leads the league in rebounds per game (45.15) and defensive rebounds per game (32.3), which are fifth and third in the country, respectively

Brooks is coming off a career-high 37 points at Virginia, which marked the most points in a game for a member of the Pack since 1998 and ninth most in school history. She also broke program records in free throws made (19) and free throws attempted (20). She was named ACC Player of the Week and USBWA National Player of the Week

Pierre was named one of 25 on the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year Watchlist on Tuesday

SCOUTING BOSTON COLLEGE

Boston College was picked to finish 17th in the ACC Preseason Poll. The Eagles went 16-18 and 6-12 in ACC play with an appearance in the NCAA WBIT last year

This season, BC is 4-18 and 0-9 in league play

Lily Carmody leads BC with 11.7 points per game and 23 steals

Amirah Anderson and Kayla Rolph tie for a team’s most 4.7 rebounds per game. Anderson also has a team’s most five blocks

Athena Tomlinson paces the team with 106 assists

Six players average 5.5 points per game or more

LAST TIME OUT

NC State bounced back in its consecutive overtime game with a 78-76 overtime win at Virginia

Brooks paced the Pack with a career-high 37 points, the ninth most points in a single game in school history. Her 19 free throws made and 20 attempts marked program and JPJ Arena records. She also added five rebounds and five assists

Pierre earned her 12th double-double of the season with 15 points and 12 rebounds with one steal

Jones recorded 14 points and came up with a big defensive play down the stretch in overtime

The Pack won the rebounding battle (46-45) and the battle in points off turnovers (21-13) and points in the paint (32-30)

SERIES HISTORY (NC STATE LEADS 23-9)

NC State and BC will play for the 33rd time in the all-time series

The first meeting was in 2006, the first year BC joined the ACC, resulting in a 75-66 loss for NC State

The Pack is on a two-game winning streak vs. BC and six-game road winning streak

NC State has won 12 of the last 13 matchups

NC State is 9-6 on the road at BC

Last year, NC State won 91-52 at home. Brooks logged an 11-point, 11-rebound double-double, Trygger had 10 points and Devyn Quigley delivered an ACC-high 11 points with six boards off the bench

UPCOMING

The Pack will return home to host North Carolina on Monday, Feb. 2 for the 21st annual Play for Kay game. The game will tipoff at 6 p.m. on ESPN2 with a special halftime recognition honoring women who are cancer survivors.