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NC State has advanced to the Elite Eight for the first time since 1986 as the Wolfpack defeated No. 2 seed Marquette 67-58 on Friday night in the NCAA Tournament.

<b>DALLAS</b> — The Wolfpack’s magical March continues.

With its eighth-straight win, NC State has advanced to the Elite Eight for the first time since 1986 as the Wolfpack defeated No. 2 seed Marquette 67-58 on Friday night in the NCAA Tournament.

State continued its string of poised and confident play in the first half, shooting 54 percent and building a 37-24 halftime lead. Marquette struggled offensively, hitting just 2 of 13 from 3-point range and 2 of 8 free throws in the first half.

In the second half, Marquette got to within 58-52 with 3:39 to play, but a Casey Morsell jumper and a Michael O'Connell 3-pointer helped State pull away.

The Eagles ended up hitting just 4 of 31 shots from 3-point range. It was only the fourth time all season the Eagles didn't reach 60 points.

"We thought that if we could defend the 3-point line, obviously that would give us our best opportunity to win," NC State coach Kevin Keatts said.

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. 

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The victory gave State 25 wins, the most for the program in a season since the 1982-1983 team won the national championship.

DJ Horne led State in scoring with 19 points, going 4 of 7 from 3-point range. Casey Morsell added 15 points and Mohamed Diarra had 11 points and 15 rebounds for the Wolfpack.

Mohamed Diarra had 11 points and 15 rebounds in NC State's 67-58 win over Marquette in the Sweet 16.

I'm just like doing these every day till like I got 12 years old, like I said, like multiple times. Yeah. Yeah. You talk about bringing energy with your, with your dunk. Do you try to bring energy with grabbing the rebounds first? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My teammate talk about like Mo quadra ball every time you gonna get rebound, they don't block it out. Like go get some of us rebound. The coach say that every time too. So I don't count that. I just go and cross the ball and 11 rebounds, impressing the first out, but I think I finished with 15. So I got just like, how do you conserve energy when you, uh, when you can't drink anything all day? Is there, is there a particular strategy you have you really at all? I just sleep a lot before the game. I, I sleep. I get rest like use the boots and, uh, ice my knees, everything like to give me energy before the game and during the game for the first time, you're familiar with them. How are you? Oh, you don't matter who we've been playing like we gonna play eight. So we just proud and take the team, we're gonna win the tonight. What?

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On Sunday, State will face No. 4 seed Duke in the South region final.

Another win would put the 11-seed Wolfpack in the Final Four, a place they haven’t been since the ’83 team made history in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

State defeated Duke 74-69 in the ACC Tournament quarterfinal on March 14 as part of an improbable run to win the tournament as a 10-seed and reach the NCAA Tournament.

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More than 200 protesters were arrested Saturday at Northeastern University, Arizona State University, Indiana University and Washington University in St. Louis, according to officials, as colleges across the country struggle to quell growing pro-Palestinian demonstrations and encampments on campus.

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Art Pope, one of the most influential Republican Party insiders in North Carolina, wants the state to investigate NCInnovation. The group is backed by $500 million dollars in government funding. Pope questions its accounting despite previous financial reviews that found it in compliance.

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DOVER, Del. (AP) — Denny Hamlin held off a hard-charging Kyle Larson over the final, thrilling laps and wiggled through lapped traffic to win the NASCAR Cup race by about a quarter of a second Sunday at Dover Motor Speedway.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Mathew Barzal capped a solid all-around effort by the New York Islanders with their season on the line to get a big win.