#5 NC State Readies for Matchups with #2 Maryland, Washington State in Bahamas

RALEIGH – After spending its first five games of the 2021-22 campaign at home, NC State women's basketball (4-1) plays away from Reynolds Coliseum for the first time this season as it competes in the Baha Mar Hoops Pink Flamingo Championship in Nassau, Bahamas. The fifth-ranked Wolfpack takes on No. 2 Maryland (6-0) Thursday at 11 a.m. and faces Washington State (3-0) Saturday at 6 p.m.

Both games will be played at the Baha Mar Convention Center. Fans can stream the games on FloHoops with a subscription, and radio broadcaster Andrew Sanders will also have the call on WKNC 88.1 FM in Raleigh.

FAN INFO
Thursday, Nov. 25 • NC State vs. Maryland • 11 AM
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Saturday, Nov. 25 • NC State vs. Washington State • 6 PM
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A WIN THURSDAY WOULD
• Be the 971st win in program history (970-475)
• Be head coach Wes Moore's 753rd career win (752-235)
• Be Moore's 195th win at NC State (194-66)
• Be NC State's fourth in a row over Maryland in a streak that started during the 2013-14 campaign
• Be the Pack's 25th over a nationally-ranked opponent during the Coach Moore era and fifth over a top-five opponent in that same span

NOTING THE WOLFPACK (4-1)
• NC State maintained its spot at No. 5 in the Associated Press Poll after going 4-1 in its first 10 days of the 2021-22 season. Following its season-opening loss to the top ranked Gamecocks, the Wolfpack went 4-0 in Preseason WNIT Classic action.
• Through five games, the Wolfpack is nationally ranked:
6th in three-point percentage (.447)
7th in field-goal percentage (.511)
10th in total threes made (46) and 27th in threes per game (9.2)
14th in fewest turnovers per game (11.8)
23rd in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.41) 25th in rebound margin (+13.6)
26th in scoring offense (84.4)
• Elissa Cunane leads the team in scoring with 14.4 points per game, and she has put together that number with a 50.9 percent clip from the field. She is ranked 10th in the league with her scoring average through the early stages of the season and has also kicked out eight assists (1.6 per game) to her teammates.
• Jakia Brown-Turner (10.8) and Diamond Johnson (10.4) join Cunane in averaging double figures. Six players are averaging 8+ points and at least 17 minutes per game through five balanced scoring outings.
• NC State had a different scoring leader in each of its first four games, and the Pack is 4-0 in games during which it has at least three players score 10+ points.
• The Wolfpack's 9.2 three pointers per game ranks second in the ACC, and the team is also averaging 35.6 points in the paint.

SERIES HISTORY (NC State leads 44-36)
• Thursday marks the 81st overall meeting between NC State and Maryland. Prior to the Terrapins changing conferences, the squads had met at least once a season from 1975-76 until 2013-14.
• NC State enters Thursday's matchup on a three-game winning streak against Maryland. All three of those victories have been dur- ing the Wes Moore era as he is 3-0 against the Terps in the midst of his ninth season with the Wolfpack.
• All three wins in that streak have been meetings against ranked teams and two have been against top-10 Terrapin squads. Then 18th-ranked NC State defeated eighth ranked Maryland 72-63 in Raleigh in the teams' final ACC meeting on Jan. 30, 2014. NC State was ranked 21st during the 2018 NCAA Tournament Second Round when it defeated No. 16 Maryland 74-60 at home to advance to its first Sweet 16 since 2007.
• NC State and Maryland most recently met on Dec. 5, 2019 for a top-15 matchup between the No. 13 Wolfpack and No. 9 Terrapins in the B1G/ACC Challenge that season. The Pack won that game by a 66-59 score, and Kai Crutchfield led all scorers with 19 points on a career-best 5-of-8 shooting performance from three-point range.
• The Wolfpack is 8-11 against Maryland when playing on neither team's home court. All but one of those 19 previous neutral site matchups occurred during the conference or national postseason tournaments, and the teams also met in Las Vegas for the Nike Invitational in December of 1978.

SHARP SHOOTING
• The Wolfpack's top six scorers are all shooting 50 percent or better from the field in 2021-22, with each having taken at least 23 shots through five games.
• NC State shot 64.7 percent (11-of-17) from three-point range in its win over Florida, a shooting mark that is the best single-game three-point percentage by any team in the ACC this season. It was the best single-game shooting mark from long range since the team went 66.7 percent (10-of-15) against Louisville on Jan. 17, 2016.
• Four Wolfpack players (minimum 10 attempts) are shooting 50+ percent from three-point range this season - Crutchfield (.692), Kayla Jones (.583), Brown-Turner (.500) and Raina Perez (.500).

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#5 NC State Readies for Matchups with #2 Maryland, Washington State in Bahamas

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Jakia Brown-Turner

Kai Crutchfield

Elissa Cunane

Diamond Johnson

Kayla Jones

Raina Perez