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Tara VanDerveer lent her time and energy to a young Dawn Staley behind the scenes years before the South Carolina coach started winning championships or delivering an improbable undefeated season.
By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer
Coach Dawn Staley and South Carolina completed their perfect season, ending Caitlin Clark's historic college career with an 87-75 win over Iowa in the NCAA championship game. The 38-0 Gamecocks became the 10th Division I team to go through a season without a loss.
Doug Feinberg, AP basketball writer
The countdown is on to the NC State Final Four games! Friday night, the women's team plays against South Carolina. Saturday night, the men's team tips off against Purdue.
Dawn Staley did a masterful job guiding a young South Carolina team back to the Final Four undefeated for the second straight season. The Gamecocks coach was honored as the AP women's basketball Coach of the Year for the second time. She received 27 votes from the 35-member national media panel that votes on the AP Top 25 each week.
DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer
Caitlin Clark is capping off her illustrious college career with another record breaking season. The NCAA Division I career scoring leader set numerous records helping Iowa reach the Final Four for a second consecutive season. Clark was honored Thursday as The Associated Press women's basketball Player of the Year.
The NC State Wolfpack women's basketball team arrived in Cleveland on Tuesday to prepare for its first Final Four game in 26 years.
Brett Knese, WRAL reporter
The NC State Wolfpack women's basketball team arrived in Cleveland on Tuesday after a rockus send-off at Reynold Coliseum.
The NCAA says the line has been corrected. UConn and USC will play the final Elite Eight game of the tournament Monday night on that court.
RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Sports Writer
Sweet 16 weekend was not only a winner for NC State University and its fans, it was historic.
Joseph Ochoa, WRAL multiplatform producer, and Carly Haynes, WRAL reporter
Aziaha James made a career-high seven 3-poiners and scored 27 points, and third-seeded North Carolina State earned its first trip to the Final Four of the women's NCAA Tournament since 1998, beating top-seeded Texas 76-66 on Sunday in a game played with 3-point lines at different distances on opposite ends of the court.
ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer
Junior guard Aziaha James scored 29 points in NC State's 77-67 win against Stanford on Friday night.
WRAL Staff
At Players' Retreat near NC State's campus, excitement was building on Friday afternoon. Fans were already piling in to try and find seats around 4 p.m.
Carly Haynes, WRAL reporter
According to the NCAA, three brackets are left on ESPN while there is one on Yahoo.
CNN
Aziaha James scored 22 points and No. 3 seed North Carolina State blew nearly all of a 20-point lead before holding off No. 6 seed Tennessee 79-72 in Monday's second round of the NCAA Tournament. That sent the Wolfpack back to the Sweet 16. Saniya
Aaron Beard, AP basketball writer
Third-seeded Wolfpack women's basketball (28-6) defeated 14th-seeded Chattanooga (28-5) by a 64-45 score in its 2024 NCAA Tournament opener on Saturday afternoon.
Tammy Brown has watched her daughters, Tamari and Teonni Key, play more than 40 times this year at North Carolina and Tennessee.
Louis Fernandez, WRAL Sports
Reigan Richardson scored 25 points and had seven rebounds as Duke rallied in the second half to overtake Richmond 72-61 in a first-round NCAA Tournament game.
Mitch Stacy, AP Sports Writer
Deja Kelly had 13 points and No. 8 seed North Carolina held off a late Michigan State run for a 59-56 victory to start the NCAA Tournament on Friday.
PETE IACOBELLI AP Sports Writer
Here's a look at how the NC State, North Carolina and Duke women's basketball teams could make runs to the Final Four.
Mark Bergin, WRAL senior multiplatform producer
Louis Fernandez breaks down where each team was seeded and who they will play in the first round.
Here's where, when and who NC State, Duke and UNC will be playing as the first round of the NCAA Tournament begins on March 22.
Taina Mair scored 19 points and Duke beat No. 6 North Carolina State 69-58 on Sunday night, the Blue Devils' second victory over a ranked team in four days. Reigan Richardson and Kennedy Brown added 15 points apiece as Duke avenged a 15-point loss to N.C. State last month.
Bob Sutton, Associated Press
Duke women's basketball head coach Kara Lawson will serve as one of three USA Basketball Women's National Team assistant coaches.
Former Peace and NC State women's basketball player Ronnie Laughlin was honored at halftime of a Play for Kay Game involving the Meredith and Peace women's basketball teams.
On Play For Kay Night at Reynolds Coliseum, the Wolfpack took a bite out of the Cardinals in front of a sold-out crowd.