NC State travels to Atlanta to take on Yellow Jackets 

March 1,2025 

Atlanta- NC State (11-17, 4-13 ACC) at Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (14-14, 8-9 ACC) on Saturday at 3 pm. 

BOTTOM LINE: The Yellow Jackets have gone 12-5 in home games. Georgia Tech averages 11.4 turnovers per game and is 7-5 when it turns the ball over less than its opponents. 

The Wolfpack are 4-13 in ACC play. NC State ranks seventh in the ACC with 9.4 offensive rebounds per game led by Brandon Huntley-Hatfield averaging 2.0. 

Georgia Tech averages 73.8 points per game, 3.8 more points than the 70.0 NC State allows. NC State averages 69.8 points per game, 3.3 fewer than the 73.1 Georgia Tech gives up. 

The Yellow Jackets and Wolfpack match up Saturday for the first time in ACC play this season. 

TOP PERFORMERS: Lance Terry is scoring 14.8 points per game with 2.8 rebounds and 1.6 assists for the Yellow Jackets. Nathan George is averaging 17.7 points and 6.1 assists over the past 10 games. 

Styles is shooting 35.5% from beyond the arc with 1.6 made 3-pointers per game for the Wolfpack, while averaging 10.8 points. Marcus Hill is shooting 39.0% and averaging 9.7 points over the past 10 games. 

Saturday Storylines 

NC State’s bench contributed 26 points against Syracuse. The Pack’s bench has provided a scoring boost in recent games. NC State is averaging 27.8 bench points per

game in the last six outings. 

NC State entered Wednesday’s game at Syracuse leading the ACC in fast break points, but the Pack was held to zero fast break points against the Orange. It’s the first time since a 68-61 win at Virginia on Feb. 24, 2021 that NC State didn’t have a fast break point (139 games) in a game. NC State is 10-3 this season when it scores 14 or more fast break points in a game, but just 1-14 if it scores 13 or less fast break points. 

NC State is trying to find the distance from 3 pt land.The Pack is averaging just 6.5 made three-pointers per game this season but has now made 45 three-pointers in the last five games (9.0 per game). 

Jayden Taylor is 43 points shy of 1,500 career points, but was held scoreless against Syracuse on Wednesday, just the seventh time in 134 career games that Taylor has not scored. The Indianapolis, Ind., native had back-to-back games of 19 points on Feb. 15 vs. Boston College and Feb. 19 at North Carolina, but was held to five points in the win over Wake Forest last Saturday and didn’t score against Syracuse on Wednesday. 

Ben Middlebrooks is one of just eight players in the ACC that has combined for 60 or more blocks and steals this season The NC State senior leads the team in blocks with 38 and is third on the team with 24 steals. Middlebrooks has had 10 games this season where he’s finished with three blocks or three steals. The more active Middlebrooks is, the better it is for the Pack. NC State is 7-3 when Middlebrooks has multiple blocks in a game this season and is 4-2 when he has multiple steals. 

NC State series with Georgia Tech 

Saturday will be the 105th all-time meeting between NC State and Georgia Tech. NC State leads the all-time series with the Yellow Jackets, 61-43. NC State has won four straight games in the series, including the last two meetings played in Atlanta. The Pack is 19-22 all-time in games played at McCamish Pavilion. The last meeting was Feb 3, 2024 where NC State beat the Jackets 82-76 in Raleigh.